I urge you to remove the Atlantic and Arctic oceans from the 2017-2022 OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program. Allowing oil drilling and development in the pristine and remote waters of America's Arctic Ocean, as well as along the Atlantic coastline, where economies are driven by coastal tourism, is risky and unnecessary. Opening these areas to dirty and dangerous offshore drilling is simply incompatible with the future of America's coastlines and beaches. The Gulf of Mexico still has not recovered from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill. Oil continues to wash ashore on Gulf beaches, and commercial fisheries and marine populations have not rebounded. And even 25 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, fisheries and marine mammal populations in Prince William Sound have not recovered. In addition, new offshore leasing and drilling is at odds with fighting climate disruption. President Obama and this administration have done more to combat climate change than any other in American history. The May 6, 2014, National Climate Assessment tells an unambiguous story: The planet is warming, and over the last half-century this warming has been driven predominantly by the burning of fossil fuels like oil and gas. If we’re serious about averting an additional 2-degree temperature increase and avoiding the most catastrophic impacts of climate change, we have to keep dirty fuels like oil and gas in the ground. That should start with protecting fragile areas and areas that have not yet been opened to exploration. In the Arctic, government scientists agree that more data is needed to fully understand the impacts of oil drilling in the region; that an oil spill could not be effectively cleaned up in the icy and stormy Arctic; and that the lack of infrastructure in the Arctic is a significant liability in the event of a large oil spill. An oil spill in the Arctic Ocean could devastate endangered bowhead whales, polar bears, seals, and other marine wildlife, and could severely affect Native subsistence communities that have thrived in this remote region for thousands of years. In the Atlantic, leading ocean scientists are urging the president to prevent any seismic testing for oil and gas reserves in order to protect whales and other marine mammals. If allowed to proceed, this testing would harm the critically endangered right whale, disrupt fisheries, and open the door for risky drilling and attendant pollution along the East Coast. The president's work fighting climate disruption must extend to include protecting our coasts and beaches from drilling. Please step back and reassess whether to open the Atlantic and Arctic oceans to oil drilling. The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico devastated and continues to haunt that region. Don't risk the same fate, and worse, for the Atlantic and Arctic oceans by opening these regions to unsafe oil drilling. The rush to allow oil drilling in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans moves us away from a clean energy future that doesn't rely on dirty fossil fuels.

Immediately initiate a 14-day national shutdown to reduce the spread of coronavirus (COVID--19) in the United States of America and the world.

Senators: PASS H.R.8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021 And H.R.1446 - Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2021 NOW, because mass shootings should not be common. We must do all we can to prevent more gun violence.

Please continue Bellevue trauma nurse Petranka Stoeva’s Order of Supervision so that Bellevue Hospital does not lose a critical member of their trauma team and so that she may complete the process obtaining lawful permanent residence based on her work as a professional nurse.

In the wake of the Buffalo shooting, Facebook is still circulating videos of the shooting and content elevating the white supremacist “replacement theory” that inspired the gunman’s attack at a local grocery store in upstate New York. And what’s even worse? Facebook actually is profiting off this content with ads running alongside traumatic videos of the shooting and political ads running on the platform, spouting the lies and hate of replacement theory. Facebook shouldn’t profit off of racist violence and white supremacy. The platform should take any and all steps necessary to demonetize and remove content related to replacement theory – including political ads – as well as content that glorifies the racist massacre in Buffalo.

Stopping the flow of money is critical to stopping Trump's anti-immigrant agenda. To do that, we must act now to demand that Congress says NO to Trump's request for more money to fund the detention and deportation of immigrants.

We urge you to ban noncompete clauses, a practice that suppresses wages and limits workers’ options by preventing them from freely changing jobs, negotiating for better pay, or starting businesses on their own.

Currently the northwest corner of Andover, MN, is in the Anoka Middle School and Anoka High School attendance boundary.  There are approximately 10 Rum River Elementary 5th grade students (representing <8% of their class) who this boundary affects each year.  The remaining students (>92%) will attend Oak View Middle School and Andover High School together.  We (the families of the impacted students) were thrilled that boundary re-evaluation was on our school boards agenda this year, and extremely disappointed to learn it has been removed.  This has created a call to action by the families, and we are beginning the process of requesting the attendance boundary to be moved to include all Rum River Elementary students in the Oak View Middle School and Andover High School attendance boundary.   If this change is not made, these children have years of friendships that will be separated by a boundary.  They have been proud Andover Huskies and part of the Andover community for K-5th grade, and will be forced to disengage based on a boundary.  They have participated in Andover youth sports and this privilege will be removed (in some cases it already has), and they will no longer have access to our community amenities based on a boundary.   

Keep Roosevelt as an operational school. Suspend your decision. This is no time to make change.

Stopping the flow of money is critical to stopping Trump's anti-immigrant agenda. To do that, we must act now to demand that Congress says NO to Trump's request for more money to fund the detention and deportation of immigrants.