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“Deficits are needed to invest in our future. They are not a bad thing! Though pointless spending like excessive tax cuts for the wealthy should not happen.”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Should There be a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution?

“Save our natural world, what is left of it.”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Should Fossil Fuel Extraction in the Arctic Be Banned?

“While it seems like good retribution for the recent shutdown, this would inadvertently result in a financial barrier to serve in Congress. It would further incentivize Congress to seek extra kickbacks from lobbyists to make up for the difference. It would result in less diversity in our Congress. Le…”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Should Members of Congress Not Get a Taxpayer-Funded Pension?

“Millions have lost over a months worth of wages for this pointless shutdown. Treat workers who serve the American people right and compensate them! Don’t worry about the admin costs to get this done - it’s part of the cost of a shutdown which should never ever happen again. Give agencies extra fundi…”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Should Low-Wage Federal Contractors Get Back Pay After Shutdowns?

“Increase competition with US drug manufacturers to force them not to gauge customers. But couple this with providing funding for pharmaceutical research so that innovations aren’t married to corporate profits.”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Should Patients Be Allowed to Buy Prescription Drugs From Canada?

“This sounds good on paper, but creates complications with the constitution. What is the definition of terrorism? Use the judicial system instead, like we would for any other crime.”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Should Americans Who Join Terror Groups Have Their Citizenship Revoked?

“Reopen the government”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Avoiding Another Shutdown by Funding Border Security (Including $1.37 Billion For Barriers) & the Rest of the Gov't

“Nobody is awarding anything to contractors for agencies that are shutdown! Open the government and give contractors back pay, fix our broken system!”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Should the Feds Award More Contracts to Small Businesses?

“I hate to say this, but cutting a deal is the only path forward. Pay the ransom in exchange for legislation that never allows a future shutdown again! I hate the wall, but the shutdown is turning into a costlier crisis.”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: The Latest: Longest Government Shutdown in U.S. History to End After 35 Days

“Nothing is more important than ending the shutdown of our government”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: This Week in Congress: Disaster Relief, Middle East Policy, and (Maybe) Trying to End the Shutdown

“No bills passed until there is a vote on the House Bill to reopen the government!”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Senate Democrats Block Bipartisan Middle East Bill Over Ongoing Shutdown for 3rd Time

“Great, now reopen the government as soon as possible so that DOI can get back to work to implement the needed maintenance. This doesn’t happen by magic wand.”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Senate to Vote on Bipartisan National Park Maintenance Bill in New Congress

“How sad that today thousands of hardworking staff at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are prevented from working to uphold the ESA due to a foolish and petty government shutdown. Don’t forget the civil servants who protect endangered species every day! Reopen the government as soon as possible.”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Nixon Signed the Endangered Species Act 45 Years Ago On This Date

“Our law enforcement must take urgent action to stop real terrorism, rather than devoting valuable resources to fighting bogeymen for political gain. Our military should be involved if necessary. I’m scared for my life and my children’s lives, each and every day.”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Right-Wing Violence Rising in the U.S.

“Climate change is the foremost threat to humanity of our age. We must take urgent action to incentivize clean energy development and use to help everyday people wean from oil, coal, and other resources contributing to the climate disaster.”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Trump Administration Climate Report Warns of Increasingly Dire Risks to U.S.

“This will undermine Medicare. Also, where is the CBO Score?”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Should Individuals Be Able to Opt Out of Medicare Part A Without Losing Social Security Benefits?

“The US Fish and Wildlife Service used the best available science to delist this species in 2015 and earlier. Legislators and courts have intervened in the past, but at the end of the day, we should place the most trust in the scientists who work on species listing and recovery more closely. While th…”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Should Endangered Species Protections for Gray Wolves in the Lower 48 States Be Removed?

“These tax cuts are unsustainable, and don’t offer the middle class anything meaningful - in fact, it’s a robbery of the middle class in the long term.”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Should the GOP Tax Cuts for Individuals, Families, and Small Businesses be Permanent?

“This bill hurts candidates who rely on funding from grassroots and small individual donations, candidates who choose not to get their campaign funds from a few corporate or special interest checks. Please do not support this bill.”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Should Members of (& Candidates For) Congress be Prohibited From Fundraising When Congress is in Session?

“A very good idea since the federal budget for youth conservation programs has been severely slashed in the past year. Get kids outdoors and familiar with their public lands!”

- RACHEL H

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In Response to: Should 4th Graders & Their Families Get Free Entrance to Federal Lands?