Fracking is unregulated and destroying or health and environment . Government is giving drilling companies a free pass. They are exempt from clean water act and are now can't be regulated by local communities it impacts. This must stop.

Bank and securities regulators are required by the Dodd-Frank Act, written in response to the financial crisis of 2008, to approve a unified rule on the subject. The rule must go into effect by July, according to the statute. At issue is a measure that would prohibit big insured banks’ from trading stocks and derivatives with their own money, known as proprietary trading. It also limits banks’ investments in hedge- and private-equity funds in an effort to reduce risks to the broader financial system.

Currently the deduction for student loan interest is capped. Many of us pay thousands more in interest than we are able to deduct. The idea of getting an education to get ahead both personally and as a nation has become a fallacy for the middle class.

End the Wars, Now!

Sen. Baucus figures it will take 10 years to grab $4.6 Billion of our hard earned IRA money initially earmarked for our heirs. The “stretch IRA”, an outstanding estate planning tool, will be doomed if lawmakers get their way. In the latest transportation funding bill, language is buried deep within that would kill the “stretch IRA” for most non-spouse inheritors, primarily our kids. Those families who have established multi-generational IRAs to stretch out the tax burden over the life expectancy of a child or grandchild, thereby allowing those accounts to continue to grow, will see those accounts uprooted. These heirs will be forced to withdraw all funds and pay taxes over a 5 year period. For many, this will force heirs into top tax rates, causing them to lose 35 to 80% in income and/or estate taxes. The “stretch IRA” allows distributions to be controlled, thereby maintaining low tax rates over the years and allowing heirs use of this money over a period of up to two generations. Left alone, congress would actually receive more taxes over the long run while these accounts continue to grow and small annual required minimum distributions are taken, but unfortunately lawmakers are looking for a quick fix and don’t care about how this law will sabotage a lifetime of family saving and planning.

Last night at the Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy allowed Chris Brown, a convicted perpetrator of domestic violence, to take the stage and perform twice. Allowing this to happen on music's biggest night shows a lack of empathy and regard for victims of domestic abuse. ICYMI: Here's why Chris Brown shouldn't have been asked to perform at the Grammy Awards last night: http://on.mtv.com/n3eVlh

Scott Walker & JB Van Hollen have plans to redirect HOMEOWNER assistance funds to the coffers of the State budget.

Tired of hearing older males either in politics or religion deciding what a woman should or not do with her own body. It is just outrageous that women are still subjected to this thinking. Our country is so backward from other civilized nations on this topic. Contact all law makers and let your opinion be known. Shelly Gowen

The FCC's Fairness Doctrine must be reinstated to prevent the news media from being exempt from telling the truth. Truth should always be the top priority of any news media as they have a responsibility to the public.

If we cannot forbid lobbying, we must demand laws that limit lobbyists to their salesman roll. They can sell their goods but the lobbyists or the company or organization they represent cannot pass along bribes to our political leaders in any form. We must demand that this be considered bribery and punishable with very harsh prison terms to the lobbyist and CEO of the organization or company that he represents.

Florida is in the midst of a foreclosure crisis. Compounding that is the vast mortgage fraud being perpetrated by robosigning and the lack of any clear path of ownership of the mortgage. To speed the clearance of foreclosures and heal the housing market, we need to enact legislation that will help clear the market while maintaining the rights of individuals. Please consider the following text of such legislation: Upon the filing of a foreclosure notice to the appropriate Florida County Clerk of Courts the Mortgagor (lender) will, within 30 days, file with the appropriate Florida County Clerk of Courts, the original signed Mortgage on the subject property. In absence of such an original signed Mortgage, filed in accordance with this provision, the appropriate Florida County Clerk of Courts will issue and record a satisfaction of lien for the subject property to the mortgagee. A fee of $50 will be paid by the Mortgagor upon filing the foreclosure notice to the appropriate Florida County Clerk of Courts.

Khader Adnan's so-called Administration Detention is a violation of Article 9, Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the long-held legal principle of habeas corpus. Further, Chapter 1, Article II (Remedies) of the Statute, World Court of Human Rights, "is empowered to process petitions for a WRIT OF WORLD HABEAS CORPUS...on behalf of individuals when their individual security or other human rights are violated without DUE PROCESS OF LAW.