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“Consumers need to be able to appeal to independent courts to resolve problems caused by rapacious financial institutions. In my experience, arbiters tend not to be independent, and side with institutions from which they can expect for income for arbitration services.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Repealing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Ban on Arbitration

“The spending package should be optimized, reducing defense spending and increasing housing programs. Our belligerence is damaging our ability to shelter and otherwise sustain ourselves.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: $788 Billion “Minibus”: FY2018 Funding for Defense, Veterans, Energy & Water, and Congress

“In principle, the federal government should not be favored in medical malpractice lawsuits. But the entire medical malpractice scheme should be revised for both private and government medical care. Damages should be restricted to free medical care chosen by the patient and the transportation to ob…”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Should Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Involving Federally Subsidized Care be Reformed?

“Intent can be shown by various means - taking pictures, for example.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Should the Intent Requirement for Child Pornography Crimes be Eliminated?

“This capability could save a lot of time and money on the court and prison system.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Should U.S. Police Start Using Rapid DNA Testing?

- ANN D

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In Response to: Funding the Gov’t Until March 23, Raising Budget Caps & Providing $89 Billion in Disaster Relief

“That is for the involved police to do.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Do Probation Officers Need the Authority to Arrest a Person if There’s Probable Cause They’ve Attacked or Interfered With an Officer?

“Why the Secret Service?”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Does the Secret Service Need a Division that Distributes Cyber Crime Info to States and Cities?

“Murder is murder, know matter who the victim is.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Should Murdering or Trying to Kill First Responders be a Factor in Federal Death Penalty Decisions?

“Having worked at the Census Bureau, it came to make sense to abolish the Bureau altogether and give the job to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which appears to be more accurate in its work.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Census Chief Resigns: Here's Why You Should Care

“Too much money is going to the military now. It is time we learned to scale back aggression and improve our diplomacy.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Should Sanctions on North Korea be Strengthened?

“This bill would only make it easier to hide business operations. Creating a database is not that difficult so as to require an increase in the threshold.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Should it be Easier for Growing Companies to Offer Employees Stock?

“Such a requirement could ensure that the regulation is, indeed, in the public interest. Better would be to require that ALL environmental data should be published.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Do EPA Regulations and Assessments Need to be Based Only on Science That’s Publicly Available?

“Obamacare should be replaced, but not with RyanCare.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Should the Affordable Care Act be Repealed and Replaced With the American Health Care Act?

“If necessary, antitrust laws should be clarified to ensure that risk pooling necessary for affordability - that is, health care costs to patients do not exceed a reasonable percentage of GDP.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Should Federal Antitrust Law Apply to Health Insurance?

- ANN D

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In Response to: Should Small Businesses be Allowed to Form Associations for Buying Their Employees Health Insurance?

“There are a lot of Indian physicians and physicians assistants in the system now that do not seem to be well screened.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Does the VA Need to Improve How it Recruits and Retains Physicians and Other Employees?

“This is a difficult decision. Too many VA employees are incompetent, if not downright criminal. It may be the fact that many of the supervisors are similarly incompetent that prevents the termination of poor employees. Yet I have seen a couple poor "care"givers terminated. So, the thought is tha…”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Does the VA Need More Flexibility in Firing, Demoting or Suspending Poorly Performing Employees?

“Instead of punishment, a push to the bottom of the docket is reasonable.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: Do Federal Courts Need to be More Active Against Frivolous Lawsuits?

“"Defense" is already bloated.”

- ANN D

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In Response to: The $578 Billion Defense Budget for Fiscal Year 2017