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“This bill is an insane attempt to punish democratic areas, give tax breaks to the wealthiest, and gut social safety nets. I prefer cumbersome rules that might help the people over ease that steals from teachers to reward jet owners.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Cutting Taxes for Individuals and Businesses

“As evidence mounts, we must be clear on our belief that no ethnic group should be targeted by state”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Condemning the Ethnic Cleansing of the Rohingya in Burma

“Each state needs to have the authority to regulate its own guns. This bill undermines states' authority. I oppose it.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Letting People With Concealed Carry Permits Carry Their Gun In Other States & Improving Background Checks

“Even if it doesn't deter someone from doing it, it takes him or her off the streets for at least a bit longer if caught.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Should the Penalty For Female Genital Mutilation be Increased From 5 to 15 Years in Prison?

“All employees who receive funds from the public or are tasked with ensuring the public trust need to know what they are expected to do. Train them.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Should Members and Employees of the House of Representatives Have to Undergo Anti-Harassment & Anti-Discrimination Training?

“Please bring this agency into the 21st century.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Should Outdated & Offensive Racial Terms in USDA & Interior Dept. Regulations be Changed?

“We ask our officers to serve and protect us, and they do so under hard conditions. If they or their units want support, including psychological, give it.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Letting Local Agencies Spend Justice Dept. Grants on Mental Health and Wellness Programs for Law Enforcement Officers

“We need to give the environmental and actual economic impact evaluations time to be completed. Then, with federal, state, and local input, we need to ensure a sustainable solution. Another knee-jerk rollback is not the answer.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Restoring Mining Leases in a Minnesota Nat’l Forest and Blocking Monument Designations There Without Congress' Approval

“When our plans and laws can protect the most vulnerable among us, the rest of us will necessarily be taken care of. This is not an either-or question. Though I do not have children, I know I am safer when they are safer. This is why childless families still opt to live by schools.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Does Homeland Security Need to Consider Childrens' Needs in its Disaster Planning?

“My tax dollars have invested in these children and their healthcare and education. Don't allow our investment to be shipped off to others countries.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Should ‘Dreamers’ be Protected From Deportation if They Lose Their Status Because of Executive Action?

“The president works for us, so we deserve know with whom he is spending his time.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Mar-a-Lago Act: Should the White House be Required to Release its Visitor Logs?

“THIS IS ALREADY POLICY”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Porn Sites on Gov't Computers: Should They be Banned?

“The cost is actually relatively low and would provide multiple states and citizen preventative assistance. The cost of intervening later and the cost of human lives lost due to insufficient warning is much higher. Plus states are already strapped and cannot afford the upfront costs.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Does the Pacific Northwest Need an Early Warning System for Earthquakes and Tsunamis?

“Although TV highlights the occasional lawyer that does wasteful things, our focus must remain in preserving the rights of the masses to seek justice. Law's made out of knee jerk responses to the rare bad actor end up kicking us all in the butt.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Should it be Easier for Federal Courts to Deal With Misdirected Lawsuits?

“This is an unnecessary increase, especially if Trump's push to get European nations to pay more is as successful as our business man in chief wants us to believe. This is an attempt to direct resources away from Americans at home who are in need to fund discretionary aggression.”

- MEREDITH L

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

“Nature and wildlife are national interests that require a joint partnership among states. The federal government needs to act as a broker to ensure the rights of states, all citizens, future generations, and our natural resources. Don't repeal this attempt to help such multilateral planning efforts.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Does a BLM Land Use Planning Regulation Need to be Repealed?

“As a woman who is at risk for dangerous pregnancy, my family, doctors, and I need to be able to decide what is safest and best, not the government.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Should the U.S. Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks Of Pregnancy (With Exceptions)?

“Seriously? Why wouldn't we want information about companies that may have unsafe worker practices?”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Blocking a Regulation That Lets OSHA Cite Employers for Record-Keeping Violations in the Last Five Years

“The ESSA law already cedes a large amount of authority to states. To function, states need to set goals and have measures and need feedback on your both to determine their usefulness. All ED is requiring is that states go through this exercise openly and with assistance. Stop wasting time, Congress.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Does a Dept. of Education Regulation On State Accountability Plans Need to be Blocked?

“They can barely do what is already in cue.”

- MEREDITH L

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In Response to: Should Congress Have More Power to Approve (or Reject) Major Regulations?