Release 10-year-old patient Rosa Maria immediately and stop allowing the Border Patrol to target immigrants and their children in hospitals, ambulances and other sensitive locations.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control should investigate tax-exempt donations from the U.S. to settlements in the West Bank, to ensure that such donations comply with all U.S. laws and regulations, and to ensure that tax-exempt U.S. organizations which support settlements in the West Bank are not violating their tax-exempt status.

STOP ISSUING NIGHTTIME NOISY CONSTRUCTION PERMITS! Please stop harassing and harming the health of residents by allowing the Department of Building Inspections to prioritize the profits and project schedule timeline of construction work in the middle of the night over the health, safety, and well-being of the thousands of residents. Our health is NOT for sale! Normal construction work is allowed to occur between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. - a 13-hour long period of time that residents can accept in general. While the condo and apartment developers understandably want to maximize profits by working 17 hours or more per day to get their product finished and ready for sale or rent sooner rather than later, the City must not continue to prioritize the profit goals of developers before the health, safety, and well-being of residents as has been occurring since at least July 2014. It should be with the highest possible regard for the health, safety, and well-being of neighbors that DBI must see no possible alternative such as delaying the work until the weekend if traffic is an issue before issuing any Nighttime Noisy Construction permits that harass and harm the health of residents every time one is issued in a residential neighborhood. In July 2014, residents of The Metropolitan condominium complex suffered through sleep deprivation and disturbances due to DBI permitting nighttime noisy construction at one of four surrounding high-rise projects on 14 out of the total 23 workweek days - that's 61%! In August 2014, residents of The Metropolitan condominium complex suffered through sleep deprivation and disturbances due to DBI permitting nighttime noisy construction at one of four surrounding high-rise projects on 16 out of the total 21 workweek days - that's 76%! The excessive permitting of disturbances in the middle of the night is cruel and abusive of the City and County of San Francisco to families who chose to live in SoMa in order to help the environment by walking to work, taking transit, or otherwise limiting the need for a car. STOP ISSUING NIGHTTIME NOISY CONSTRUCTION PERMITS! Sincerely, San Francisco Voters

Thank you Governor Dayton for supporting policies that promote clean energy! On June 2, the Environmental Protection Agency announced new carbon pollution standards that can help you protect Minnesotans as well as our lakes and rivers from toxic mercury and other pollution that results from coal-burning power plants. Minnesota has already taken steps toward renewable sources and, with your leadership, is well positioned to strongly implement these rules and continue our transition to clean-energy. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to make the most of this opportunity. Your dedication to the health and the well being of all Minnesotans is important to me and I thank you for standing with my values.

I am co-sponsoring the Better Off Budget to help Americans find decent jobs and save for the future. It reverses harmful cuts that have hit working families the hardest—starting with repealing across-the-board budget cuts known as the “sequester.” It creates a fairer tax code so that low and middle-income families no longer have to pitch in more than the world’s biggest corporations. It reverses harmful pay freezes, expands benefits for federal retirees and strengthens federal health care and retirement programs Americans rely on. Separate from the Better-Off Budget, the CPC also endorses increasing Social Security. The American people overwhelmingly value Social Security, and the CPC stands with Americans in protecting and expanding this essential institution. It’s the right budget for the country, for working families and for our future.

Add your voice in support of the free and open Internet: “A free and open world depends on a free and open Internet. Governments alone, working behind closed doors, should not direct its future. The billions of people around the globe who use the Internet should have a voice.”

Dear Administrator McCarthy, Last week Europe imposed a two-year ban on the use of bee-killing pesticides. But our own EPA continues to ignore scientists -- even those it employs -- and says it won’t take action until 2018! The global bee die-off is reaching critical proportions. U.S. beekeepers have been consistently losing 40-100 percent of their hives. Widespread use of a new class of toxic pesticides, neonicotinoids, is killing bees outright, and even at low levels makes them vulnerable to other threats. Honey bees, native bees and other pollinators are responsible for one out of every three bites of food we eat. Apples, blueberries, strawberries, carrots and broccoli, as well as almonds and coffee, rely on bees. We request an immediate moratorium on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides. Bees can't wait five more years – and neither can we!

Put a stop to employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act!

USDA Rural Utility Service’s proposal to fund Energy Answers’ waste incinerator in Arecibo, Puerto Rico is a waste of taxpayer money and makes no sense from either an economic or environmental perspective. According to the Energy Information Administration, waste incineration is the most costly form of energy production per unit of energy or power. The Arecibo project will deepen the financial crisis currently experienced by Puerto Rico’s municipalities by forcing them to pay higher tipping fees and discouraging recycling and other more economic waste management methods. The proposed incinerator will also lock Puerto Rico—a place where wind and solar could generate more than 100 percent of electricity needs—into electricity from one of the most polluting methods of energy production per unit of energy. The proposed incinerator will emit lead in an area already in violation of the Clean Air Act’s air quality standards for lead. The incinerator also will be a major source of all other criteria air pollutants. And the project will generate thousands of tons of potentially toxic incinerator ash each year. Energy Answers is now asking RUS to step in and make this terrible idea a reality. Don’t waste my taxpayer dollars on this unwise investment!

We the undersigned believe that an immediate 12-month extension of unemployment benefits (including in-process training approvals) be implemented and expedited for veterans and people whose benefits ended or will end in 2020 due to the emergency COVID-19 pandemic which is reducing employment opportunities.