Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass a clean debt limit bill, and pass the Secure Viable Banking Act, the Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act, and the Global HER 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.
Daily Kos helps you tell your Congressfolk to sign a discharge petition mandating a vote on a clean debt limit bill, one without any hostage-taking or drama. Seriously, no more drama! is the message our Congressfolk need to hear. They’ll pretend they’re hearing from constituents (or, possibly, “constituents”) about TEH RUNAWAYZ SPENDINGZ!!!!, but they really need to hear this simple message: no more drama! Do your damn job! Stop trying to force evil down good Americans’ throats! Social Security cuts, Medicare cuts – they know they can’t do them without drama. But it we get in their grills, they can’t do it at all.
Americans for Financial Reform helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Secure Viable Banking Act, which would repeal Trump-era banking regulation rollbacks. You know, like the one that increased the amount of rubbish a bank could hold without submitting to stricter regulations. Stricter regulations could have prevented those bank failures (and the resulting bailouts – the fact that taxpayers didn’t pay for them doesn’t make it that much better!), but big bankster CEOs didn’t want them, because waaaaaaaaaaaah. Seriously, that’s the reason – who complains more about fulfilling obligations to society than a bankster?
Civic Shout helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act, and though I wince at the phrase “foreign mining” – mining and polluting near sacred San Carlos Apache/protected public land would be just as wrong if an American corporation did it! – the bill would permanently protect the Oak Flat area of the Tonto National Forest, thus ending a shameful chapter in the careers of former Sen. Flake (who once lobbied for the same corporation that wants to mine Oak Flat) and the late Sen. McCain, whose attention to clean air/clean water/religious freedom issues was always erratic. So let’s redeem their souls and protect some sacred public land.
Finally, Daily Kos helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Global HER Act, which would end forever the “global gag rule” that Republican Presidents reinstate the day they take office. I hate having to revisit this issue every time the Presidency changes parties even more than I hate the fact that electing a President from a different party even matters! And the fact is, the global gag rule hurts people all over the world – right-wingers pretend it prevents us from “exporting abortion,” but it actually prevents us from exporting health care to developing nations, since abortion is only one service health care organizations provide. So let’s end this battle once and for all.
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