Indivisibles,
TONIGHT, the House is coming back in session to vote on a rules package to
begin consideration of the Budget Resolution. The Budget Resolution is
step 1 in passing an inclusive recovery and sets the topline funding for
recovery (step 2 is passing a reconciliation bill. See [ [link removed] ]our recovery
resource here for more info on this process). Because they know
conservative Democrats often balk at taking bold action, [ [link removed] ]progressives
in the House have coalesced around a strategy to move the inclusive
recovery package alongside the narrow bipartisan “roads and bridges”
package.
Speaker Pelosi and President Biden also support this approach, which
allows Democrats to deliver on a broad range of campaign promises like a
pathway to citizenship, lowering prescription drug prices, expanding
Medicare, and massive investments in climate, the care economy, and
affordable housing. But right now, nine conservative Democrats are
obstructing this plan and threatening to vote no.
We have a few hours left to make an impact on this vote. [ [link removed] ]Call your
representative and demand that they vote yes on the rules package tonight
and immediately pass the budget resolution tomorrow. And now, here are
your weekly to-dos:
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Your weekly to-dos
1. Make calls now on recovery. The recovery package is moving, and
progressives have led the House Democratic Caucus in insisting that we
need a bold recovery package before we pass the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Framework. Nancy Pelosi agrees with their strategy, but
some House moderates are threatening our success. [ [link removed] ]Read our resource
on the package here, then [ [link removed] ]call your members of Congress.
2. Call your senators and demand they pass the For the People Act in
September. The Senate missed the deadline to get everything we need
from S. 1, making it critical that we pass what we can to protect our
democracy. That starts with ensuring the filibuster doesn’t stand in
the way. Depending on where you live, here’s what we need you to do:
* If you live in Delaware, call Senators Coons and Carper at
1-877-684-7760 and tell them you’ve heard information that
they’re wavering and it's time to pick a side: democracy or the
filibuster. Remind them you're paying attention. (If you want,
[ [link removed] ]fill out your information here and we’ll call you with a
script and patch you through to their office directly.)
* If you live in West Virginia or Arizona, call Senators Manchin or
Sinema and tell them you insist they stop defending the Jim Crow
Filibuster and pass S. 1. Don’t let them off the hook with a
wishy-washy answer. Click [ [link removed] ]here to call Manchin or [ [link removed] ]here to
call Sinema.
* If you have any other Democratic senators, [ [link removed] ]click here to call
them and ask them to turn up the heat on Coons, Carper, Manchin,
and Sinema. Tell them you’re proud to have heard they’re taking a
stand against the filibuster and for our democracy, and ask them
to pressure their colleagues to do the same.
* If you have only Republican senators or no senators (hi, our D.C.
neighbors) or if you want to do more: Push your senators and
representatives to make a public statement calling on Biden to
get into the fight. Biden getting involved could be a
game-changer, so if you can, call your [ [link removed] ]representative and
then your [ [link removed] ]senators.
3. RSVP for Saturday’s March On for Voting Rights: On the 58th
anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech,
democracy advocates across the country are joining the historic March
On for Voting Rights. On Saturday, activists will march in cities
across the country and demand that Congress act by passing federal
voting rights legislation. [ [link removed] ]Click here to learn more and join the
marches online or in person.
4. [ [link removed] ]Watch this video for an update on For the People Act (S. 1). Get a
state of play on this critical democracy bill, and then [ [link removed] ]click here
to hear from Indivisibles like you on why this bill is significant.
If you want to do more, call your friends
with Democratic senators and representatives and ask them to call, then
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