I had thousands of requests for tickets to the inauguration so I did what I felt was the most equitable thing to meet this demand.  Instead of passing on the tickets to VIPs, I made them accessible to everyone through a lottery.  Here is an article from MSNBC which covered the drawing.

A number of different proposals have been suggested to help homeowners facing bankuptcy and foreclosure.  I have drafted a proposal entitled the Homeowners Protection Act which will enable bankruptcy judges to alter the terms of mortgages for those facing bankruptcy in an effort to help homeowners keep their homes.  Here is a breakdown of similar measures including my own.  I will be strongly pursuing mortgage relief for homeowners when Congess convenes the 111th Session.

Already nearly 9,000 people have sent the message online to the incoming Obama Administration that single payer is the one true health care reform that the country desperately needs. Now there are citizens groups across the country meeting to come together to collectively call upon the President-elect to consider single payer health care.  Here is what a group in Alabama is doing today:

http://www.freep.com/article/20081228/NEWS01/812280362