Controlling costs associated with the delivery of health care can save over $400 billion per year equaling more than $4 trillion in ten years. The financing of health care through the private for profit insurance model has not only failed to deliver care to all, it has escalated associated costs through artificially accelerating administrative costs at every level by raising premiums, imposing restrictive regulations and punitively reducing payments to providers and patients. Furthermore, the Debt Reduction Committee has an opportunity to expand the most administratively successful health care program in America today, namely, Medicare, to improve it to include areas of health not formerly covered and to reform some aspects to provide immediate cost-savings. The Debt Reduction Committee should: 1. Expand and improve Medicare for everyone within the next four (4) years 2. Ask Congress to pass a bill declaring with every other developed nation that health care is a basic human right.

The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress in 1972, yet it still hasn't become a formal amendment to the Constitution. Four states (Florida, Georgia, Illinois, and Missouri) have yet to ratify the amendment, yet only three are needed. Help make the Equal Rights Amendment become the 28th amendment, and allow for equal rights of all people!

In the last election, Republicans took control of the Alabama House, Senate, and Governorship for the first time since reconstruction. Now, they've gone absolutely crazy with their power. One of their latest laws has lead to teachers asking school children for their immigration papers and forced entire Alabama communities to live in fear.

We need great elementary schools in Capitol Hill and Ward 6. Programs like School Within a School (SWS), the Reggio-Emilia inspired school that has a waiting list more than double its enrollment. But it's a small school, and DC Public Schools has made clear they don't have room for small schools anymore. They want elementary schools of at least 300 students. SWS is a terrific school, with award-winning teachers (two of whom were honored by Chancellor Henderson and President Obama in recent days) and an innovative project-driven educational approach that’s resulting in top-notch test scores. SWS is a great model for DC Public Schools. Rather than letting DCPS close SWS, it’s time to expand SWS from its current pre-K and kindergarten program into a full-sized DCPS elementary school, covering preschool through 5th grade. One great option is to move SWS to the former Van Ness Elementary building as a neighborhood school in the rapidly growing Capitol Riverfront community near the Navy Yard. Let’s open SWS at Van Ness in fall, 2012 -- our kids can’t wait! If you have a child who could attend SWS at Van Ness next year, note their ages in the comment box.

KY is low on the list on animal welfare. The abuse is a serious issue. It is up to us to let the government know that life is important and the risk of animal cruelty leading to the risk of these same people harming people is possible. No animal should endure physical, emotional, or psychological abuse and it has to stop.

House Republicans want to strip away Pell grants for students as college tuition costs are rising around the country. By making eligibility requirements for Pell Grants more stringent, they look to undermine an important vehicle for social mobility in order to avoid raising another cent in revenues from the wealthy. This is the real class warfare.

People in congress, the senate, and the corporations need to pass an amendment to live under the same laws. Did you know people in congress don't pay into social security, taxes, and more? Sign to get congressional attention to pass this bill.

We, the undersigned, would like to see the hearing process started on Senate Bill#791and House Bill #1490. The United States Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) program needs to be amended. This RECA amendment bill could help many of our countrymen who feel the federal government and nuclear industry abandoned them after they gave health and lives to support U.S. efforts during the nuclear arms race, the Atoms for Peace program and the uranium mining industry. They are called Cold War Patriots, let's treat them like it.

Christian Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani is going to be executed in Iran in 5 days for refusing to renounce his religious faith & convert to Islam. This brings to mind what Hitler did in Europe more than 70 years ago.

We elected Scott Garrett to represent the interests of the people of New Jersey's 5th district in Washington. Instead he has signed an oath to Grover Norquist and moved directly in line with John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, devoting his energies to ineffectual, partisan politics, accomplishing nothing. It's time for Mr. Garrett to reaffirm his allegiance to his constituents by working toward creating jobs and lifting up New Jersey's struggling middle class. NOW.

The Delaware River Basin Commission postponed their vote which had been scheduled to take place last November 21, 2011. The current temporary ban (moratorium) on Fracking in the Delaware River Watershed could be lifted at any time, and with very short notice, by a vote of the DRBC. This would threaten the environment and endanger the water supply of millions of people in parts of 4 States. The severity of the threat has now been broadened and increased by the recent enactment of PA Act 13. Review some concerns about Fracking at my "FRACKING-AWARENESS INFO DOCUMENT-5" (copy, paste address as hyperlink is disabled)-- https://docs.google.com/document/ d/1jNRoQUiIufCjTWCaEdfEsDOq1nlLHKQU9SM2bxa2E20/edit?pli=1# ...Google Document "FRACKING-AWARENESS INFO DOCUMENT-5" is also available for review at: http://tinyurl.com/Fracking-Awareness

Make it illegal for any elected official to lie as an employee of the people by the people. Do not allow any official tasked with making decisions that affects the lives of the people to whom they were elected to protect to use the 1st amendment as a sham and excuse for misinformation. Make them held to a higher level of accountability due to the level of office that they hold. We, the people of the United States of America, as their employer deserve nothing less than what any employer would ask of us.