A Look at the News — 2017.01.11
— Compiled by Jesús Espinoza, Deputy Press Secretary, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto Click the + sign to open up the topic area and read the content
Category: Advocacy
Sen. Cory Booker complete testimony against Senator Sessions
Advocacy: Call Your Senators!
Call: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto Phone: 202-224-3542 Call: Sen. Dean Heller Phone: 202-224-6244 Senator Jeff Sessions is a dangerous man. First he built a career on opposing civil rights. Now he’s mere days away from becoming America’s next Attorney General. Sessions is
Ethics, Conflicts of Interest and Confirmation Hearings
With the advent of the incoming #trump administration backed up by a Republican-led Congress in both houses, it’s become ever more important that we speak up, loudly and en masse, when actions are proposed that are contrary to what we the American
Oppose Nomination of Rep. Tom Price as HHS Secretary
— by Nicole Regalado, Credo Campaign Manager We don’t know all the details of Donald Trump’s plans for America yet but one thing’s clear: If you’re not male, wealthy or heterosexual, Trump’s extreme right-wing administration won’t have your back when it comes to accessing
A Call for #trump to Veto Any Cuts to Medicare & Social Security!
— by Michael Phelan, Social Security Works donald trump won’t be sworn in for two weeks, but Republicans in Congress have already begun their assault on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. On the first day of the new Congress, Senator Mike Enzi
After Public Outrage, House Republicans Suspend Efforts to Gut Ethics Office
Press Release from Public Citizen Note: Due to enormous public backlash, U.S. House Republican leaders today walked back an overreaching amendment passed behind closed doors that would have stripped the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) of its independence and much of its power. The
Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda
Former congressional staffers have written a guide revealing best practices you can use in making Congress listen. This Guide is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. [pdfviewer width=”600px” height=”710px” beta=”true/false”]http://www.humboldtdems.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/IndivisibleGuide_2016-12-29_v1.pdf[/pdfviewer] Go HERE to sign up to receive notices about updates
Trump vs. Public Citizens
— by Robert Weissman — President, Public Citizen Here’s the strategy: We will uncover the corruption in everything Donald Trump does. We will call out Trump’s wholesale handover of our government to Big Business. We will expose Trump for his complete and utter betrayal of