The chronic issue with Social Security is that Congress has "borrowed" funds from the Social Security Trust Fund for use for non-social security purposes. It's time Congress paid those funds back.

Among the many dubious provisions in the 2005 energy bill was one dubbed the Halliburton loophole, which was inserted at the behest of then-Vice President Dick Cheney, a former chief executive of Halliburton. It stripped the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of its authority to regulate a drilling process called hydraulic fracturing. Invented by Halliburton in the 1940s, it involves injecting a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals, some of them toxic, into underground rock formations to blast them open and release natural gas.

In April, the Obama Administration said that clean water is the foundation for healthy communities and a healthy environment. I agree completely, and urge you to make sure that the clean water policies being proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers move forward.

Do not promote students repeatedly when they fail to master basic grade-level math skills.

Presently the Arizona Insurance Commission does not get involved if a health insurance company pays any money toward a claim. Consequently, in emergency situations a health insurance company can get away with paying out-of-network 60% vs the 80% that should be paid for emergency situations. example: a car accident where the patient is taken to the closest hospital. This causes personal hardship and an increase in filing for personal bankruptcy in Arizona.

Stop lobbyist power by stopping their access to Congress and the President.

Public Finance of all campaigns

Our present system of financing campaigns for all offices is destroying democracy. Having politicians write the rules of campaign financing is self-serving. Presently almost no one runs for office without backing from organizations. Corporations, unions and foreign countries expect a return on their money when they contribute to a candidate. Their interests seldom support the 99%. Corporations are not people and yet our Supreme Court has ruled they are when it comes to financing campaigns. Doing what's right for the country is secondary to doing what's good for a particular political party. Besides costing billions, never-ending campaigning takes leaders away from their elected jobs and is an intrusion in our lives

We want the US to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan within six months. There's no hope of "winning" there. Both the government and the Taliban are corrupt. We've spent too much money, too many lives there.

Unless Congress acts to reinstate the pretax benefits, there will be a bias in favor of automobile commuting, with public transit commuters only able to set aside $125 a month, and auto commuters allowed up to $240 a month. This subsidizes the more polluting automobile over the cleaner and more energy efficient use of buses, trains and automobiles. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/transit-users-await-congressional-action-on-pretax-benefits/2011/12/06/gIQArG6IlO_story.html

The banks and mortgage companies were bailed out. Now, they are not helping regular Americans who need a break. This petition is calling on banks and mortgage companies to begin in earnest to help the millions of Americans who are underwater in their mortgages, to readjust or refinance home mortgages.

We pipe in oil! We pipe in Gas! No Water! (No money to be made!) Putting one million to 2 million to work, as we speak! Filtering systems! Purification systems! Texas becoming a dust state! Water for all farm, industry, towns and cities? Sen. McCain favors a Canadian to Texas oil line? (Money to be made!? What is more important to survive, Oil? or Water?