Things You Can Do Right Now Last updated 2/20/2025

1. Sign up for Emily Randall's Feb. 25 tele-town hall. (But we'd like an in-person town hall even more). Sign up here: randall.house.gov/about/events/february-25-telephone-town-hall. Then call Emily Randall's offices and demand an in-person Town Hall, or at the very least, a Zoom/Facebook Town Hall.

2. Call our senators and urge them to vote NO on the nomination of Linda McMahon as Sec. of Education. Here are the top three reasons Linda McMahon should not be Secretary of Education. Thank them for voting NO on Kask Patel, who was confirmed Feb. 20 by a vote of 51 to 49. Two Republicans, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, voted NO on Patel, as well. Our senators should slow down the process of confirming Trump's nominees. They should put holds on all of the remaining nominees (there are plenty to go). They should vote NO on all nominees, reject every unanimous consent request, vote NO on all cloture votes, vote NO on motions to proceed. Vote NO on any procedural vote and demand quorum calls at every possible opportunity. Our senators must not be complicit in hollowing out our democracy.

3. Call our senators and demand an in-person Town Hall or at the very least a Zoom call ASAP!

4. Call our senators and urge them to vote NO on H.R. 77, aka "The Midnight Rules Relief Act." As the Congressional Review Act is currently written, if the majority of the House and Senate vote to override a regulation put in place by the executive branch after the "lookback" date (currently August 1, 2024), that regulation is overriden. The Midnight Rules Relief Act would allow all the regulations to which the controlling party in Congress objects to be combined into a single joint resolution, thereby making it easier to override regulations. In this case, the Midnight Rules Relief Act would make it easy for the GOP to override 1,400 regulations put in place by the Biden administration. Learn more here. Thank Rep. Randall for voting NO on H.R.77, which passed the House narrowly by a vote of 212 to 208 on Feb. 12. Learn more here.

5. Call Rep. Randall and urge her to vote NO on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. Although it's not on the official calendar this week, Mike Johnson is likely to try to move it soon. This legislation is the most anti-democratic legislation the GOP has yet to devise. It would require U.S. citizens to provide in person a valid state-issued birth certificate (minimum $32) or a passport ($195 plus cost of photos, also requires a state-issued birth certificate) in order to register to vote or update your voter registration if, for example, you move. It is not clear how the bill would impact voters who are already registered, but with the GOP, the sky's the limit. This bill passed the House last year but was not brought up by the Senate because it was controlled by Democratics, but that is no more. Read "Married Women Could Be Stopped From Voting Under SAVE Act".

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