Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to ban stock trading by members of Congress, stop trying to prevent Americans from importing prescription drugs from Canada, and pass the DISCLOSE Act. Use the tools in the upper right-hand corner of this page (or, if you're on a cellphone, the bottom of this page) to find your Congressfolk's phone numbers and/or use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs.
More Perfect Union helps you tell your Congressfolk to ban stock trading by members of Congress. Yes, you’re telling them to pass laws that would prevent themselves from trading in stock, but hell, if you’re serving in Congress, you ought to be quite familiar with the temptations of power by now – and you should also know that power corrupts. Congressfolk investing in corporations will absolutely make them less willing to take on those corporations when they prey on consumers of pump filth into our air and water, and they’re supposed to take on polluters and financial predators on our behalf. They say we can trust them; I say it’s our duty as Americans not to trust them, and to demand better behavior from them.
Drug Prices Are Too High helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject any effort to prevent good Americans from importing prescription drugs from Canada. Why do folks do that? Because the drugs cost a lot less, that’s why! And how do they cost less? Because Canada’s government buys drugs on behalf of its citizens, and with the bargaining power of an entire nation, they can get better prices. Hmm, there’s a lesson in there, somewhere. In the meantime, Congress might actually pass a FDA funding bill that would include a provision preventing good Americans from getting cheaper drugs, so we need to tell them to cut that out.
Finally, Public Citizen helps you tell your Senators to pass S. 443, the DISCLOSE Act, which would (among other things!) force disclosure of all big campaign finance donors who give more than $10,000 to campaigns or committees. I know, I know, Senate Republicans blocked it yesterday, but why take that from them? Why assume that we can't express our will because they've expressed theirs? And, let's face it, their will sucks. Money isn't speech, campaign spending is a far, far larger impediment to free speech than making big donors donate in public, and calling campaign finance disclosure "bullying" can just cry into their thousand dollar bills. They really shouldn’t whine about it, though. Nobody except a Trumphole likes whining.
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