Please vote NO on the Seabed Treaty!! Don't give away what little country "we the people" have left! This will be forever.....no turning back!

If IPAB passes, and a senior citizen comes into the emergency room in the middle of the night, then a board of non medical elites will determine what care they should have. No board is going to want to meet in the middle of the night.
How is this different from death panels?

I see that you've introduced the cloture vote on the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. Would you support Sen. Tester's letter of 7/29/2011 to Sen. Leahy urging that the Senate hold firm on its position against diversion of patent office user fees as passed in its overwhelming vote in support of S.23? If the Senate instead were to rubber-stamp H.R. 1249 as currently worded by the House, would that not be a dreadful backslide from what the Senate previously adopted?

I agree with Gerry, the Senate should adequately fund the patent office as the Senate vote in March on S.23 said. The Senate should not rationalize the bill as a job creator. The bill kills jobs, see

Huffington Post "Patent reform's job-creation abilities, however, are largely limited to K Street." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/15/obamas-jobs-agenda_n_927325.html#s308357&title=Pass_Patent_Reform

This bill is a give away to large multinationals and Wall Street banks at the expense of smaller American companies that create jobs.

I may not see eye to eye with you but you stayed and listened to what they had to say about syria and for that i commend you. That was your job. Others had prior commitments and left...therefore NOT doing their job. Integrity means doing the right thing even when no one is watching....Thank you!

Mary, I watched to and feel like you do. We need examples of dedication like this now so there's some hope that they care.

Bob,
Do you like your job? Keep up this voting record and you will be golfing with spector soon. As of this time I'm working to vote you out. Its up to you to change my vote by changing yours.

Senator Casey: Stop the crazy spending in Washington! Vote to cut 2011 spending by the largest amount possible! The lack of a budget in 2011 is disgraceful! Shame on the Democrats! Live within your means like the rest of us!

Cut your salaries and cut the entitlement programs, of which I am a recipient. I love America and it's future more than myself!

Say no to EPA, please.

What is more important to you, the passage of new laws promoted by the Party that may cost more money and be a larger burden on Citizens like me, or your constituents and the fight they are waging just to stay afloat in these trying economic times?

An editorial written by Eric Schmidt from Google had two very important observations about his 2010 trip to Davos.

First he said, “we heard real and widespread concerns about the direction of the American economy and, for the first time, the danger of stalemate in our political system."

He stated, "Access to knowledge has been democratized beyond imagination allowing the powerful to be held more easily to account."

These two statements about how the system works and the future of how the "powerful" will be held accountable call on us as citizens to demand access and interaction with Government leadership.

Will you as a Member of Congress open the process of your agenda and actions to the American people? You talk about bi-partisanship and how it isn’t working.

It is inconceivable that 300+ million people can be in such a mess caused by 535 Congressional Members who spend most of their time blaming the President and Congress (which is really themselves) for the current situation.

THIS PART IS FOR THE DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY: You have had the super-majority for over a year and things have not gotten better! If you want it fixed, fix it! If you want a bill enacted, enact it. If you want to stop deficits, stop them! If you want solutions make them. Do not wait for the almighty leadership of the President to set a policy that you don’t have the courage to enact with your power. If you believe in the program do it. Then on the other hand, if you don’t support something throw it out and move ahead with a better solution.

Eric Schmidt is a very smart man. He knows statistics and can see the direction that America is headed. It may be up to the head of Google and us, the 300+ million people to fix. Accountability is coming in the very near future and the only way that Congressional Members will be able to protect their jobs and rebuild the trust of the people is to start solving problems.

Will you invite input from typical Americans with great ideas to participate in open discussion on forums like this (that you or your staffs is not moderating) and start to earn back the trust of people like me?

If they actually fixed a problem then they wouldn't have a platform to run on in the next election.........meaning,the American people come in a distant second and they still feel they are above us all!