There is a lot here. Use it like a menu and select what works for you. There is something to do every day
Monday, February 6
Procedural votes on nominees are expected this week. Continue to ask your Senators to withhold consent on everything until the Muslim ban is lifted.
Don’t Let the Senate Rubber Stamp Trump’s Other Unfit Cabinet Picks: The Senate will try to confirm several of Trump’s Cabinet picks THIS WEEK. In addition to DeVos and Session (see Tuesday), they will likely be confirming Tom Price (Health and Human Services), Scott Pruitt (EPA), and Steve Mnuchin (Treasury) at some point. For reasons ranging from incompetence to well-documented racism, each is unfit to lead any of these agencies. It’s not too late to stop them. Keep visiting your two Senators’ offices to tell them to oppose these nominees!
Tom Price: Rep. Tom Price is a zealous opponent of Obamacare, and his financial conflicts of interest continue to raise doubts about his ethics and judgment.
Call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on Tom Price for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Scott Pruitt: Putting Scott Pruitt—who places private profits ahead of the public good—in charge of the EPA is like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. Unfortunately, in this case the hens are America’s health and the environment.
Call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on Scott Pruitt for EPA Director.
Steve Mnuchin: Predatory lender Steve Mnuchin is also under fire for failing to disclose millions of dollars in assets and his role as director of an investment fund incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
Call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on Steve Mnuchin for Secretary of the Treasury.
Tuesday, February 7
Oppose Trump's Cabinet Picks: Cloture Vote on Jeff Sessions
The full Senate will proceed to a cloture vote on Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination to be Attorney General. Jeff Sessions was rejected for a federal judgeship by the Senate in 1986 for being too racist, and he hasn’t gotten any better since. He’s spent his career making it harder for African Americans to vote, fighting against equal rights for women, minorities and LGBTQ people, and demonstrating consistent hostility to the rule of law and human rights. Sessions has a decades-long history of opposing civil rights legislation. He was rejected for a judgeship by the Senate in 1986 for being too racist, and between his attacks on civil rights and his strong anti-immigration stance, he’s just as unfit to be Attorney General today.
CTA: Call members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and demand that they vote NO on cloture.
Oppose Trump's Cabinet Picks: Senate Vote on Betsy DeVos
The full Senate will proceed to a vote on on the nomination of billionaire GOP fundraiser and anti-public schools advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Education Department. The confirmation vote for Betsy DeVos will likely happen soon. Two Republicans have announced their opposition—which means we only need to sway one more Republican Senator to stop DeVos from becoming the least qualified Secretary of Education in history. You can stop this confirmation from happening. YOUR Senator could be the one to sink DeVos.
CTA: Call your Senators and demand that they vote NO on Betsy DeVos's confirmation.
Wednesday, February 8
Keep standing against the Muslim and refugee ban. Last week, a federal judge—appointed by Republican President G.W. Bush—issued a temporary nationwide injunction on Trump’s illegal and unconstitutional Muslim ban. While this is great news, it is only a temporary halt to the Muslim ban, which Trump continues to fight in court. This isn’t the time for Congress to sit on the sidelines; Congress needs to use its power to defund and rescind the ban.
CTA: Call all your MoCs and demand they take action to defund and rescind Trump's ban.
Ask your Senators to continue to withhold consent on all Senate business, and filibuster any legislation until this discriminatory, unconstitutional ban is revoked and justice is restored.
CTA: Call your Senators and demand a fillibuster.
Ask your Representative to cosponsor H.R.724, the Statue of Liberty Values (SOLVE) Act, legislation that would rescind and defund Trump’s Muslim ban. We’ve got scripts for these conversations (along with a recording of last week’s emergency planning call) available here.
CTA: Call your Representative and ask them to cosponsor HR 724.
Get Steve Bannon off the National Security Council: House and Senate Legislation
Tell Congress to put national security over party politics: No Bannon on the National Security Council. President Trump’s decision to remove the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff (actual national security experts) from the National Security Council and instead give a permanent seat to Steve Bannon was an unprecedented politicization of what is supposed to be a nonpartisan body.
CTA: Call your Senators and ask them to cosponsor S.291 to modify the requirements for membership in the NSC.
CTA: Call your Representative and ask them to cosponsor H.R.804 to prevent political appointees from serving on the NSC.
Oppose Trump's Cabinet Picks: Senate Vote on Jeff Sessions
CTA: Call your Senators and demand that they vote NO on Jeff Sessions's confirmation.
Friday, February 10
Oppose Trump's Stolen Supreme Court Pick: Boycott the Vote
Tell your Senator “Stop Gorsuch, Don’t Nuke the Senate”: Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. But this isn’t Donald Trump’s vacancy to fill. Early last year, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland, a distinguished jurist, to fill this vacancy. Senate Republicans refused to hold hearings, let alone a vote, on Garland’s nomination.
Now, they want Gorsuch to receive the consideration Merrick Garland didn’t. What’s more, if Gorsuch can’t get 60 votes, Donald Trump wants Republican leaders to deploy the “nuclear option” and do away with the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations. Going nuclear would destroy a critical check and balance in our democracy—we can’t let that happen.
CTA: Call your Senators and tell them you oppose Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, and demand they oppose the “nuclear option.” Also ask that they boycott the Supreme Court Pick vote if necessary.
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