This will be closing the only Sam's club available within a 100-mile radius of our town. This is totally uncalled for and will hurt a lot of the members!

Adult citizens of Arkansas should have access to buy, sell, possess, and or grow not only this wonderful preventative medicinal herb, but to utilize all the benefits of hemp without threat to their lives from this overreaching government.

It’s been over 100 days since the GOP leadership in Congress let the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) expire. With short-term patches and some creative budgeting, they’ve managed to limp funding along, but the time is up and the health and well-being of our children is at stake. Leaders from both sides of the aisle have agreed to a full 5 year extension of CHIP. They just have to stop playing partisan politics with children’s health and pass it! On January 19th, Congress will vote on a new spending bill and it must include long-term funding for this critical program. Children’s health can’t afford to wait; and short-term funding patches don’t cut it when it comes to providing reliable health coverage for children and pregnant women. The uncertainty this creates is inexcusable and puts the health and well-being of women and children at risk. Some states have already begun notifying families that their coverage could end. Moreover, states are not able to plan their budgets with funding still uncertain for CHIP. States can’t rely on limited patchwork funding and families can’t afford to go without coverage for their kids.

Is Trump trying to bring on end times? Why is the CDC preparing us for nuclear war? Why is Putin preparing for WWIII? It’s time someone stepped in to stop this madness. We will not go quietly into “end times”. NO NUCLEAR WAR.

Our votes and opinions have fallen on deaf ears long enough. It’s time for the people to take back the country and Elect our Presidents with A Popular Vote by The People.

The current program in place put 94 percent of the OCS (Outer Continental Shelf) off limits for drilling. That changed January 4, 2018. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke decided to open up over 90 percent of the OCS acreage and over 98 percent of undiscovered oil and gas resources. Secretary Zinke is quoted as saying “Responsibly developing our energy resources on the Outer Continental Shelf in a safe and well-regulated way is important to our economy and energy security, and it provides billions of dollars to fund the conservation of our coastlines, public lands and parks”. Yet this statement denies the ugly truth of offshore drilling. And that truth is this: It causes pollution, more human health issues (particularly respiratory), oil spills (of which only 10 percent has been recovered) devastates ocean life (and thus us as well) and causes more extreme weather events according to the NRDC (National Resources Defense Council). The NRDC also states that offshore drilling contradicts climate science, threatens coastal communities and directly goes against the clean energy solutions the American public favors. Instead of being concerned that “the U.S. remains a global leader in offshore energy development” as Katharine MacGregor, Principle Deputy Assistant Secretary of Land and Minerals Management states there needs to be actual concern for the health of the American people and the earth we all share. We are sadly taking so many steps backward environmentally with the Trump administration this past year that it’s dizzying. How much more do you think our environment can take? Has the recent uptick in extreme weather taught the current administration nothing? How many more lives and homes need to be destroyed before they get the point that climate scientists might just be telling the truth? Don’t be fooled. There is no such thing as environmentally sound or safe offshore drilling. The Draft Proposed Program (DPP) includes 47 potential lease sales in 25 of the 26 planning areas-including 19 in Alaska, 12 in the Gulf of Mexico, 9 in the Atlantic Region and 7 in the Pacific Region including right here in the Washigton/Oregon Area. There have been no offshore sales in our region since 1984. Help me fight to keep it that way. Let’s work together to send a strong message to this administration that we will not tolerate making our already near dire situation worse. We are ready to make positive environmental changes in solidarity not just for ourselves but for our children and future generations. Let’s be the tide of change we wish to see in this nation.

Vermont is a forward thinking state and recognizes the value that migrant workers, refugees and immigrants bring to our state's economy. VT is one of 12 states that test and issue drivers licenses regardless of your immigration status. It's important that they feel safe sharing their personal information with the DMV and are not painting a target in their backs for ICE to find and deport them. To this end I am asking the Vermont legislature to write a law protecting that data from federal meddling.

There is no reason to be putting our environment in this kind of danger for a few drops of an obsolete, dirty fuel. Green Energy has already proven a far safer, more environmentally stable, and in the long run more efficient energy source. No one wants those big metal eyesores off our shores.

The Right to Work legislation gives employers the right to fire workers for no reason, destroying the middle class. Workers who have never had negative work issues are fired and most are over 40 years of age, and find it difficult or impossible to find employment making comparable pay. After 23 years working for theCity Of Detroit, myself and hundreds were fired without cause. Although we were labeled Civil Servants ,we were fired without the rights of Civil Servants.

Opening up the entire Oregon Coast for fracking and drilling would not only create havoc on the fishing industry, but it would be catastrophic to the environment. But the Republicans aren't too worried about anything they can't line their pockets with. I wouldn't doubt there will be a tremendous amounts of kickbacks from the oil companies, to probably every Republican. We must stand against any drilling off any coast and inland waters, of the United States

The New Jersey coastline brings in huge amounts of revenue to the state and keeps many small businesses operating through tourism. The state of Florida (governed by Republican Rick Scott) will not have drilling off of it's coastline due to the relationship between President Trump and Rick Scott and the location of Trump's resort, Mar-A-Lago ("not in my backyard" attitude). New Jersey deserves to have the same privilege - NO DRILLING IN NEW JERSEY!

Undocumented Utahan immigrants who obtain driver's licenses are helping to keep our roads safe. They have trusted their info to the DMV and we shouldn't betray that trust by letting ICE use it against them.