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CONGRESS AND THE SENATE SHOULD RECEIVE CUTS TO THEIR BENEFITS, NOT THE NEEDY

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  • Mar 23rd, 2017
    Someone from Bronx, NY writes:
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    Cut your benefits first, you can start with your coffee and snacks allotment and go from there! Payback the money "borrowed" from Social Security!
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  • Mar 23rd, 2017
    Connie B. from Jonesborough, TN writes:
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    This borders on criminality! Cuts to Congress benefits first!
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  • Mar 23rd, 2017
    Someone from Vista, CA writes:
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    You should set the example and cut your benefits first. You should also show America by setting an example and eliminating your healthcare benefits. You should toss out your pensions and join the Social Security ranks. Get in touch with how what used to be the middle class, is now living through. I lost my life savings, investments, and retirement because of bad laws, bailouts, and one horrific head on collision with an uninsured driver. Five million gone along with my home and rental income. Get back in touch and avoid a revolution
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  • Mar 23rd, 2017
    Peggy E. from Harlan, IA writes:
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    They aren't worth the money!
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  • Mar 23rd, 2017
    Melody O. from Milford, DE writes:
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    Give back the "borrowed" social security money, then give everyone raises. Either give U.S. citizens the same health care that Congress gets, or make Congress pay for insurance like everyone else. Adjust Congressional salaries to an hourly wage, when they show up for work and stay there all day., and no raises if soc sec recipients do not get cost of living raises.
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  • Mar 22nd, 2017
    Donna W. from Douglasville, GA signed.
  • Mar 22nd, 2017
    Tina L. from San Bernardino, CA writes:
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    Vote No on trump care as a disabled senior I need my healthcare Medicare!! I feel this is wrong and many sick and disabled friends are afraid if this passes we will die ! Trump only wants to kill us and he will do just that if this passes we are crying out to you plz help us live !! No to trump / Ryan care !
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  • Mar 22nd, 2017
    Anne P. from Las Vegas, NV writes:
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    If congress thinks it has a mandate to "improve" health care without listening to the people, they are grievously wrong. While they maintain their benefits paid by you and me, they are stripping our health care to the bone, reducing our viable options by emphasizing profit for insurance companies. Universal medicare works in countries all around the world, is affordable, efficient and simple. It removes profit motivation and allows people to see their doctor instead of putting it off or not going at all because of costs. Congress has no clue what the average American faces every day. By the way, I do not own an Iphone!
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  • Mar 22nd, 2017
    Patricia L. from Harrisburg, PA writes:
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    We need cuts for Congress, not the needy.
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  • Mar 22nd, 2017
    Dona L. from Tucson, AZ writes:
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    SHAMEFUL DISGRACE! What in God's name is wrong with you revolting hypocrites! Please STOP labeling yourselves pro-life and Christians! YOUR ARE NOT!
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  • Mar 22nd, 2017
    Someone from Melbourne, FL writes:
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    I feel they should have their benefits cut, they wanted this job. So why do we give them so much in benefits. I remember studying about government...we are their boss ? Hate to say this get out of the conflicts.... these have been forever. Borrow money from China ! To fight ! Sorry from the old news, should of never went To Iraq.... just the same to Vietnam. Now we are cutting health benefits for real American citizens so we can buy more guns fight a fight that isn't ours.
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  • Mar 21st, 2017
    Someone from Manasquan, NJ writes:
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    I'm tired of paying for your perks. I guess you all think you are better than the rest of us and deserve more. I think you all forgot who elected you and who your are supposed to be working for, it's "we the people". Don't forget that we the people that put you where you are can also remove you at the next election.
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  • Mar 21st, 2017
    John & Debra B. from Cape Canaveral, FL writes:
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    If there are going to be cuts it should be for ALL Americans. We must all suffer this includes our congress members. Health care across the board for everyone .
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  • Mar 21st, 2017
    Someone from Temecula, CA writes:
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    There is no reason the public should pay for the Member's of Congress' health care. They make enough money to pay for their own. We need to cut back from subsidizing their health care and provide the help to the most needy: the poor and elderly.
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  • Mar 21st, 2017
    Anna S. from Providence, RI writes:
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    Pay for your own health care, don't use tax[payer subsidies!
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  • Mar 20th, 2017
    Joanne J. from Torrance, CA writes:
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    We need cuts for congress, not for the needy!
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  • Mar 19th, 2017
    Jane D. from Cape May, NJ writes:
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    As a senior on a fixed income I am appalled at the cuts to the budget made by Mr. Trump. I rely on the National Endowment for the Arts and other social programs and am so horrified at what he is cutting for the poor. I expected this from the "Republicans" since they have been wanting to do this for years. I wonder if the "steel worker" mentioned by the Republican congressman will be happy to give the big tax cuts to the rich like Mr. Trump and his cabinet.
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  • Mar 19th, 2017
    Someone from Philadelphia, PA writes:
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    How can the Congress and Senate understand how the cuts they propose to Healthcare affect the average citizen if they never have to use it. Hearing a constituents' problems is not at all the same as facing those problems yourself. In the 1970's judges sentenced slum lords to live in their slums for a period of time so they could see what it was like. Perhaps the President and all Senators and Congressmen should have to live for a year with the changes they are making before they force them on the people.
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  • Mar 19th, 2017
    Ruth Ann C. from Chaffee, MO writes:
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    Congress is full of corruption and lies. It is time to cut the benefits and pay from Congress and the White House. No more tax cuts for the wealthy.! You are getting rich and destroying America! We have had enough! All new Congress in the future! Time limits on how long congress's can serve. We need to take alot of their retirement pay and benefits away! I am an independent voter!
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  • Mar 19th, 2017
    Robert R. from Miami, FL signed.
  • Mar 19th, 2017
    Pam S. from Winston Salem, NC writes:
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    If they are so in favor of budget cuts, let them start with the ones who will be effected least; themselves!
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  • Mar 19th, 2017
    Leonard M. from Salem, MA signed.
  • Mar 19th, 2017
    Barbara M. from Redwood City, CA writes:
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    When the Republicans come up with a health care plan......they should have to subscribe to it as well......if it's good enough for them, then it's good enough for the rest of us!
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  • Mar 18th, 2017
    Peter W. from Norwich, CT signed.
  • Mar 18th, 2017
    Ankhi G. from Cherry Hill, NJ signed.
  • Mar 18th, 2017
    Kathleen L. from Santa Fe, NM signed.
  • Mar 18th, 2017
    Robert S. from Milwaukee, WI writes:
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    Congressional representatives should not receive government paid health care insurance or benefits.
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  • Mar 18th, 2017
    Robert C. from Shokan, NY writes:
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    Down with the cheating, robbing, greedy pols. They are mostly all traitors. "Eat the Rich."
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  • Mar 18th, 2017
    Someone from Birmingham, AL writes:
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    If this new plan is so great they should opt in for themselves and their families. They make enough so surely they can afford it and if it's good enough for us it should be good enough for them. They can also take care of their elderly parents or spouses since they want to cap nursing home care. Think of all the money that they could save for "silly" things like Meals on Wheels, food for hungry children living in poverty and women's reproductive issues including contraceptives. They are severely out of touch with the real world
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  • Mar 18th, 2017
    Ron J. from Chicago, IL writes:
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    Their plan to gut Obamacare is a disgrace. Medicare and Social Security is next. It's time to have them feel what it many Americans are feeling....disgust and fear.
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  • Mar 18th, 2017
    Catherine O. from Lacey, WA writes:
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    Congress should lose the free health care. They need to be included in this new TrumpCare they say I s so wonderful. Let them become part of our system and get off their gravy train of freebies.
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  • Mar 18th, 2017
    Someone from Milwaukee, WI writes:
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    I am positively in favor of THIS BIll !!! . How many of our ( leaders ??) millionaires, etc. never have had to worry about health care, paying bills or buying food?? Then they have continued financial benefits and health care after they leave office. And THEY THINK the poor are welfare crooks, crackheads, scam artists, taking the system for all they can get. congress has a LOT TO ANSWER FOR.
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  • Mar 17th, 2017
    Andrea M. from Bronx, NY writes:
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    I want Every member in Congress and the Senate to use the SAME HEALTH CARE they want to give the people they WORK FOR!
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  • Mar 17th, 2017
    Someone from Burbank, CA signed.
  • Mar 17th, 2017
    Jessy G. from Beeville, TX writes:
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    All Government officials, including Senators, Congressmen, President, Judges and other appointees that make over 100,000 yearly can afford and should pay for their own insurance. We earn a lot less and pay for ours.
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  • Mar 17th, 2017
    Sajid A. from Hilliard, OH signed.
  • Mar 17th, 2017
    Someone from Des Moines, IA signed.
  • Mar 17th, 2017
    Audrey A. from Fort Wayne, IN signed.
  • Mar 17th, 2017
    Linda H. from Carnegie, PA writes:
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    It's only right that those who represent us have the SAME HEALTHCARE and other benefits we HAVE> DO AWAY WITH ALL THEIR 'PERKS' ARE THEY ROYALTY??????????
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  • Mar 17th, 2017
    Someone from Chelmsford, MA signed.