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Things You Can Do Right Now Last updated 2/13/2025 |
1. Call our senators and urge them to vote NO on the nomination of Kask Patel as FBI Director. He lied his way through his confirmation hearings, but was advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee by a party-line vote of 12-10 on Feb. 13. There is evidence, that although he denied having anything to do with recent firings at the FBI, he was actually directing the purge. |
2. 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. |
3. Call our senators and thank them for voting "NO" on the nomination of RFK Jr. to be Secretary of Health, Education, Labor and Pensions during the vote by the full Senate on Feb. 13. Thank them for voting NO on Bondi, Gabbard, Rollins and Vought, too. Urge our senators to slow down the process of confirming Trump's nominees. They should put holds on all of the nominees. 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. In view of the chaos caused by freezing payments and firing DOJ prosecutors, our senators must not be complicit in hollowing out our democracy. |
4. 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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