Proposed: Set Congressional pay at 5 times the U.S. minimum wage ($7.25/hour), at 60 hours per week, equaling $2,537.50 per week (with overtime). When the minimum wage is increased, then Congressional pay would increase, and for no other reason.

GM and Chrysler received better terms than familes. Twenty percent of the parent borrowers make less than $50,000 a year. The Discount rate is 0.75%. PLUS loans should be capped at 2% over the discount rate or 5%, whichever is lower.

Current law requires children born of expatriate parents outside the US to live in the US for 5 years before they can pass on their citizenship to their own children. Given everything we are doing for undocumented workers, it's time to get rid of this arcane requirement.

Stop the Wolf hunt in the State of Minnesota. The 5 year moratorium to study Wolf population once they were removed from Federal protection was ignored! These beautiful and essential animals are being hunted for nothing more than sport and to appease the Livestock lobby!!

A dark cloud of illegitimacy hangs over the pending presidency of Donald Trump, given the facts below put out by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. We request that the Electoral College vote scheduled for December 19, 2016 be delayed and if necessary Congress and/or SCOTUS should declare that President Obama remain as the chief executive until either a new date is set for an Electoral College vote once the following conditions are met, or if after these conditions are met it is determined a new election is needed, until after such new election. Conditions: 1.Trump must release his tax returns. The latest information as put out recently by Newsweek reveals numerous conflicts of interest with foreign countries that could leave President-Elect Trump with possible violations of the emoluments clause of the Constitution on Day One as well as possible blackmail by foreign countries. A scheduled press conference on this issue where Trump promised to explain how he would deal with these issues has been indefinitely postponed. 2. The CIA must make public its report on Russia’s intervention in the U.S. elections in support of Trump so that all may get an honest assessment of how serious the interference was and the electors can make an informed decision as per Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 68* 3. The Department of Justice under President Obama's direction must open a full investigation into Russian interference in the election and ties to the Trump campaign given the facts below. President Obama already said the following on Monday night on Trevor Noah's The Daily Show: “You had what was very clear relationships between members of the president-elect’s campaign team and Russians, and a professed shared view on a bunch of issues,” Obama said. Given his statements, a full investigation not tied to a partisan Congress is in order. Facts: 1. The CIA has found credible evidence that Russia intervened in the election in order to help Trump become president. 2. It has been suggested that Trump owes vast sums of money to Russian oligarchs, friends of Putin, who have also invested substantially in Trump’s enterprises -- which may explain why Trump won’t disclose his tax returns, which would show evidence of these deals. 3. Several of Trump’s key campaign aides – including his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort – have close ties to Russia. Between 2007 and 2012, Manafort received some $12.7 million in cash payments from a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine and has still been shown to be in touch with the Trump transition group. 4. During the campaign, Trump said he admired Putin, questioned whether the U.S. should continue to support NATO, and argued that Putin was justified in moving into Ukraine. 5. Trump chose as his Secretary of State ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who is also close to Putin. In 2013, Putin awarded Tillerson the Order of Friendship, one of the highest honors Russia gives to foreign citizens. Tillerson came up through the ranks at Exxon by managing the company's Russia account. After becoming CEO, Exxon bet billions on Russia's vast oil resources through a partnership with Russian oil giant Rosneft, owned partly by the Kremlin. Putin himself attended the 2011 signing ceremony for the deal. Russia has already indicated it would welcome Tillerson being named America's top diplomat. 6. Trump was defeated in the actual voting by a startling—and still growing—2.8 million votes. Clinton’s popular vote victory margin is now over 2 percent, thus handing Trump the largest defeat suffered by a candidate elevated to the presidency by the Electoral College in modern history. Given that the difference in three key states that gave Trump the victory was a little over 79,000 votes and the aforementioned Russian interference, gives all the more reason to investigate such a close electoral margin. *In Federalist No. 68, Alexander Hamilton wrote that the electors would prevent those with “Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity” from becoming president. They would also stop anyone who would “convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements.” The second goal was to stop foreign interference in elections. In the founding period, the framers were extremely concerned about infiltration by rivals including Great Britain. In Federalist No. 68, Hamilton wrote that one major purpose of the Electoral College was to stop the “desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.” He said that the college would “Guard against all danger of this sort … with the most provident and judicious attention” from the electors. The third goal was to prevent poor administration of government. This is a less well-known purpose of the Electoral College, but it is again expressly discussed in Federalist No. 68. Hamilton wrote that “the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration,” and for that reason,...

Tell Congress and your President to stop attempting to pass new tax laws,instead of going after the people who can afford to pay more in new taxes.

Whereas: There has been recent seismic activity in Weld County Colorado (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000r9pp#summary) within 2 miles of two injection wells(http://dnrwebmapgdev.state.co.us/mg2012app/), and Whereas: The US Geological Survey has determined there is a direct causal link between such injection wells and seismic activity (http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/man-made-earthquakes/) Whereas: The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Act charges the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission with “protection of public health, safety, and welfare” (34-60-102). Therefore, we ask that the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission immediately order that all injection wells within its jurisdiction be closed, and no further wells of this type be allowed to operate in the state of Colorado.

Limit the number of non Virginia students admitted to state institutions. By increasing the number of state students attending Virginia colleges the taxpayers will be more willing to increase funding for those institutions

Creat jobs now! Shorter workweek now! A 32 hour workweek will go a long way to creat jobs.

Tell John P. DiGiovanni to please allow the tenants at 110-120 Brookline St. 5 months to arrange suitable locations for our displaced businesses and artists. A mere 30 days to re-home over 100 artists and businesses is just not adequate.