Republicans in the House are preparing to refuse raising our nation's debt ceiling, essentially holding our economy hostage to gut the critical benefits on which our seniors depend.

This calamitous move could undermine our still-fragile economic recovery and jeopardize the full faith and credit the United States of America has built for hundreds of years.

We can't let House Republicans threaten that kind of disaster to extort cuts in earned benefits like Medicare and Social Security.

Sign our petition to Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor today to take the debt ceiling off the table.