Which topics would you like to see members of Congress answering your questions about on live television in July?
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1,785 votes
A single payer national healthcare plan
Why is Representative Conyers bill HB676 not being analyzed and discussed as real healthcare reform that removes profit driven administrative costs from the equation and covers everyone and allows for the doctor of your choice.
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958 votes
Single payer national health care that puts patient need ahead of insurance and drug companies.
Health care should be a right, not a privilege.
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935 votes
Accountability for Bush Era crimes
Republicans love to talk about people "taking responsibility for their actions." Can we count on you to support investigations, and if appropriate prosecutions of wrong doing during the past administration. After all, I am sure our conservative friends would want to make sure that crim... more
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855 votes
Clean energy
What is Congress going to do to wean us from our dependence on oil - which is a threat to our national security, our economy, and our environment - and what will we replace it with?
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496 votes
Banking reform and financial regulation
How should we provide adequate oversight to banks and Wall Street to make sure they can't take down the economy again?
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288 votes
Poverty
Too many of our fellow citizens live in poverty. I am afraid that the current concerns over our economic recession focus to such a great extent on the woes of the middle class that those living at the margins of our society are being overlooked. We need to re-examine the underlying causes of bo... more
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236 votes
incentivising local agriculture
Removing government subsidies (over time) of chemically produced, GMO, large scale monoculture agriculture will close the cost gap between healthy local food and corporate farmed produce. This will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emisions involved in transport, incentivise people to eat bette... more
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202 votes
EPA
EPA is not "Enrichment-Protection Agency". The EPA should ensure that breathing safe air, drinking clean water & growing food in non-toxic soils is provided & protected as a vitally higher priority than protecting freedom of material enrichment.
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194 votes
What do you intend to do about the massacre of Peruvian indigenous people?
What do you intend to do regarding the Peruvian Free Trade Agreement which is being used as justification for the massacre indigenous protestors who have been protesting the oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian province of Bagua.
With the Peruvian Free Trade Agreement as excuse, th... more
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192 votes
Public Funding for Elections
There can be no democracy where private funding determines the outcome of elections. If you are beholden to corporate interests for your re-election how will you choose to vote? In the public interest or...?
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170 votes
We need a patient bill of rights where we can have alternati
A patient bill of rights where we can choose what type of treatment or prevention medicine we want based on our own beliefs. Alternative medicine which is in most cases more effective and far less expensive needs to be a choice/ MAny countries offer these choices it is time we took the lead in this area.
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165 votes
military gays
Gay military members
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161 votes
Take the insurance companies out of nationalized health service. They have no business being there
If we really have nationalized health care for ALL, there is no place for insurance companies. Yet, any discussion about re-doing health care in this country begins with the insurance companies at the table. That's absurd!
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133 votes
Why can't we stop killing Afghanis?
Where we are providing real security, and rebuilding infrastructure, we are welcome. Where we are drone bombing, and terrifying the Afghani people we are not. Acting as police force we can help, as an occupying army we turn the people against us.
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126 votes
Unemployment
Economists are now saying that unemployment will likely be higher than 10% this summer in the country - and even higher in many minority communities. What is Congress going to do both to help the unemployed and to create new jobs?
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86 votes
Social Security, elected represenatives retirement
Elected representives should be on the social security program, so as to give the appearance that we the united states are a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Not governed by the elite.
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71 votes
revoke the Federal Reserve Private Banks ability to print US government money supply and set rates
The Federal Reserve Banking System is a for-profit privately owned set of banks that have a congressionally approved monopoly on creating money supply out of thin air from making loans (debt) to other banks and charing interest in this debt. The US government needs to take back the money making... more
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63 votes
Afghanistan
How do we get ourselves out of the quagmire we've found ourselves in in Afghanistan?