This is the script I used
"My name is XXXX and I am a constituent.
We live in [CITY NAME] (Zip Code XXXXX). I am calling in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that grants protected status to undocumented immigrant children brought into the US by parents or other adults.
On July 20th, Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) reintroduced the DREAM Act (S. 1615), a bipartisan bill which would grant legal status and a path to citizenship for DACA participants. In the House, Democrats have introduced a slightly more generous bill, the American Hope Act (H.R. 3591), which would also grant DACA recipients conditional legal status. Congress must quickly move to support and pass a legislative solution to protect our Dreamers.
I urge [NAME] to support these legislative solutions to protecting the DACA program and the hundreds of thousands of people who rely on it for access to jobs, education, and security.
Thank you for your hard work answering the phones.”
Do you have a Democratic Senator? Want to save lives (possibly even your own) and help kill Trumpcare? The Indivisible Group has a plan. But we need to light a fire under the Democrats who still keep trying to play nice with the GOP.
The plan - the GOP has chosen to repeal healthcare in secret without any hearings or debate. But the simple majority vote (reconciliation) method allows the Democrats to force a debate by adding amendments. Thousands of them. Each one will have to be read into the record - which will give the US citizens more time to read and understand what is in the healthcare repeal bill and how it will hurt them. Otherwise, the GOP plans to repeal healthcare - without any debates or hearings - by July 4 in time for them to go home for vacation.
OK so what do I do?
You can use resist-bot to text-fax a message: https://resistbot.io/
Or call your Senator.: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/
OK what do I say?
This link offers a script: https://www.indivisibleguide.com/resource/withholding-consent-filibuster-amendment-call-script/
Except from the Indivisible website:
“Do you have a Democratic Senator? Then it means they’ve publicly committed to voting against TrumpCare. That’s great—but it’s not nearly good enough. This is a do-or-die moment on the ACA and your Democratic Senator should be doing everything they can to stop this bill from getting through the Senate. Here’s how they can really play hardball to defeat TrumpCare.
They’re using a strategy of speed and secrecy to pass TrumpCare in the Senate. No hearings, no town halls, and no CBO score. And they definitely aren’t letting anyone read the bill. We need to slow them way down and draw attention to their terrible bill and their terrible process. That way, everyone will know how many people will lose coverage, how many protections will be taken away, and how much premiums are expected to increase.
Cornyn won't take calls unless you are from Texas.
We’re Going To Need A Bigger Boat Vote! A 3 Step Plan To Save Healthcare Over The Next 3 Weeks.
The Senate is planning on fast-tracking the repeal of the Affordable Care Act in 3 weeks. The bill is being drafted in secret without any input from patients or doctors. The Democrats are not being allowed to participate. There will be no hearings, no town halls, no input from voters. And the “moderates” in the GOP are signaling that they will support taking away healthcare from millions of Americas.
What can you do?
STEP 1:
If you live in these states, call your Senator: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/
TN - WV - LA - ME - AR - AZ - CO - SC - NV - AK & OH
STEP 2: Go to Facebook and type in “Friends in [name of state].” Messenger your friends, send them this link and ask them to call. If they cannot call, have them fax from their cell phones using ResistBot (https://resistbot.io). If they cannot fax, have them email their Senators. And then ask them to pass this info on to their friends and families in those states and ask them to do the same. Also consider emailing a letter to to the editor for the local papers in your state & send them your story, mentioning your Senator.
If you don’t use Facebook, search through your contacts for people from those states and do the same.
STEP 3: If you are burned out and overwhelmed: please consider reposting on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, LJ/DW.
More tips here: https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/872911051628707841
Deadline: we have three weeks. The vote will happen the third week in June (June 26-June 30).
4 Sample scripts below
Sample Script: “SCRIPT FOR SENATORS: Hi, my name is…and I’m a constituent from… [give your zip code]. I am calling because I am very concerned about the millions of people like me who could lose health care and essential services if the AHCA becomes law. (Insert personal details as you feel comfortable: I receive care through the ACA or Medicaid, I have a pre-existing condition, I have a disability/a child with a disability, I work in health care or in schools, etc.) I ask that the senator aggressively oppose ANY legislation that makes it harder for constituents to access affordable insurance or cuts funding for Medicaid and vote against any bill that offers a tax cut to the wealthy at the expense of working Americans, the sick, and disabled. Thank you for your time”
Sample Script: “Hello, my name is ….. and I’m a constituent from… [give your zip code] . I’m calling to demand that Sen. X do everything in his/her power to block Trumpcare. Trumpcare will destroy Medicare and Medicaid, defund Planned Parenthood and take health care away from people with pre-existing conditions. Tens of millions of Americans could lose their health coverage if the Senate advances Trumpcare. I expect Sen. X to do the right thing and protect Americans from this deadly and reckless bill. Can I count on Sen. X to vote no on Trumpcare? Thank you for your time.”
Sample Script: “ Hello, my name is ….. and I’m a constituent from… [give your zip code] . I’m calling (SENATOR) to oppose any health care bill that (List your favorites from below)
This. Is. How Democracy. Dies.
They won’t allow anyone (even their fellow Senators) to see what is in the bill. They won’t allow any input from patients or doctors or their constituents. Last month a reporter asking about the bill by was assaulted by a GOP Rep (who has now pled guilty). And today they announced a ban against reporters in the Senate hallways - hallways that we we paid with our tax dollars.
Call Your Senator: https://5calls.org/issue/recJfyyL7LE0Ez4ys
“News on Tuesday that on-camera interviews might be significantly curtailed within the Capitol is an on-the-nose manifestation of something that had otherwise not attracted a lot of attention: The Republican effort to replace Obamacare was being put together almost entirely outside of the public’s ability to see what was happening.
When White House press secretary Sean Spicer first addressed the Republican health-care bill that would eventually pass the House last month, he was effusive that his party’s caucus on Capitol Hill would do things differently.
“One of the things that’s important to understand about this process, that’s very different from when the Democrats did it,” Spicer said, referring to the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
“Everybody can read it, and it’s going to go through what they call ‘regular order,’” he said. “We’re not jamming this down anybody’s throat. It’s going to go through a committee process. All parties involved, all representatives in the House will be able to have input into it. I think that’s the way to conduct this process, is to do it to allow people to watch the process happen in the committees, allow members of Congress to have their input in it, to make amendments, to see that we get the best bill that achieves the goal for the American people.”
He blamed the Democratic secrecy he was maligning for the final shape of the bill. “When it was done the last time, it was jammed down people’s throats. And look what happened,” he said.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan made similar commitments. But that’s not at all how the Republican bill has unfolded.
After rushing the original version through committee in the House and getting an unfavorable assessment of its effects from the Congressional Budget Office, Republican leaders realized they didn’t have the votes for their bill, the American Health Care Act, to pass……
It was generally assumed that the bill didn’t have much of a chance in the Senate. But that was before a small group of senators began working in private to develop a bill that might pass that body. And when we say “in private,” that’s underselling the point.
Only a small group of senators know what’s in the bill. An aide to one of the Republican senators working on it told Axios that no draft would be released because “we aren’t stupid” — meaning, apparently, that they knew better than to open up the bill to public criticism before the vote. The plan, apparently, is to send the bill to the CBO for a score before it is then released to the public.”
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Your phone call of the week: Call Your Senator and demand that they work on healthcare in the open where constituents and patients can provide input
To call your senator go to “5 Calls”
https://5calls.org/issue/recJfyyL7LE0Ez4ys
SCRIPT
“DEMAND FULL TRANSPARENCY ON THE SENATE AHCA BILL
The Affordable Care Act, and the healthcare of millions of Americans, is under a massive and urgent threat by Republicans. On Wednesday, June 7th, Speaker Mitch McConnell used “Rule 14” to successfully fast-track the AHCA, the House healthcare bill that passed last month designed to deprive 23 million people of healthcare in order to provide tax breaks to corporations and the rich. Rule 14 will allow the bill to go straight to a Senate floor vote without any requirement for committee debate or discussion.
Currently, the Senate plan is being developed in secret and is expected to be submitted to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) around June 13th, without the release of any details of the submitted healthcare plan to the public or even Senate Democrats. While the CBO score will be released to the public two weeks later during the week of June 26th, McConnell is expected to immediately call for a vote on the bill on the Senate floor (to reach his publicly stated goal of passing the bill before the July 4th recess), giving Senate Democrats and constituents *hours* to learn of and digest a new healthcare plan that will affect one-sixth of the national economy and their own personal well-being.
Healthcare policy affects every single American, and it is unacceptable that this plan has not been transparent and available for sufficient Senate debate and public review. If we do not put pressure on now for full transparency on the contents of this healthcare plan, we may not get any visibility how it will potentially alter our lives until hours before the Senate’s final vote on the floor.”
We’re Going To Need A Bigger Boat Vote! A 3 Step Plan To Save Healthcare Over The Next 3 Weeks.
The Senate is planning on fast-tracking the repeal of the Affordable Care Act in 3 weeks. The bill is being drafted in secret without any input from patients or doctors. The Democrats are not being allowed to participate. There will be no hearings, no town halls, no input from voters. And the “moderates” in the GOP are signaling that they will support taking away healthcare from millions of Americas.
What can you do?
STEP 1:
If you live in these states, call your Senator: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/
TN - WV - LA - ME - AR - AZ - CO - SC - NV - AK & OH
STEP 2: Go to Facebook and type in “Friends in [name of state].” Messenger your friends, copy and paste them this info/send them a link to this post and ask them to call. If they cannot call, have them fax from their cell phones using ResistBot (https://resistbot.io). If they cannot fax, have them email their Senators. And then ask them to pass the same info on to their friends and families in those states and ask them to do the same. Also consider emailing a letter to to the editor for the local papers in your state & send them your story, mentioning your Senator.
If you don’t use Facebook, search through your contacts for people from those states and do the same.
STEP 3: If you are burned out and overwhelmed: please consider reposting on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, LJ/DW.
More tips here: https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/872911051628707841
Deadline: we have three weeks. The vote will happen the third week in June (June 26-June 30).
4 Sample scripts below
Sample Script: “SCRIPT FOR SENATORS: Hi, my name is…and I’m a constituent from… [give your zip code]. I am calling because I am very concerned about the millions of people like me who could lose health care and essential services if the AHCA becomes law. (Insert personal details as you feel comfortable: I receive care through the ACA or Medicaid, I have a pre-existing condition, I have a disability/a child with a disability, I work in health care or in schools, etc.) I ask that the senator aggressively oppose ANY legislation that makes it harder for constituents to access affordable insurance or cuts funding for Medicaid and vote against any bill that offers a tax cut to the wealthy at the expense of working Americans, the sick, and disabled. Thank you for your time”
Sample Script: “Hello, my name is ….. and I’m a constituent from… [give your zip code] . I’m calling to demand that Sen. X do everything in his/her power to block Trumpcare. Trumpcare will destroy Medicare and Medicaid, defund Planned Parenthood and take health care away from people with pre-existing conditions. Tens of millions of Americans could lose their health coverage if the Senate advances Trumpcare. I expect Sen. X to do the right thing and protect Americans from this deadly and reckless bill. Can I count on Sen. X to vote no on Trumpcare? Thank you for your time.”
Sample Script: “ Hello, my name is ….. and I’m a constituent from… [give your zip code] . I’m calling (SENATOR) to make certain that the new health care bill ....(List your favorites from below)
Your call of the day: Tell your Senator to slow down and get it right. Work on health care in public where the voters can weigh in.
The Senate has fast-tracked the health insurance repeal which is being written behind closed doors.
Special focus on Senators from Arizona and Nevada: https://www.dailykos.com/…/-McConnell-starts-fast-track-pro…
The bill is not drafted or finished, no bipartisan input (or any input from any patients or doctors). No idea how much it will cost America, how many millions will be left uninsured or whether people with pre-existing conditions will be covered. Call.
".....no decisions have been made on some key policy questions, including on handling Medicaid. Still, it’s almost impossible for the public to assess what precisely Republicans are working on — the GOP is writing the bill behind closed doors and with no committee hearings."
To call your Senator: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/
Due Date: May 26, 2017
Leave comments to protect national parks that are under threat. Do this before May 26, 2017. Only 7,000 comments have been submitted.
Some suggestions on what to say are here: https://modernhiker.com/how-to-comment-on-trumps-national-monument-review
Where to go to leave comments (look for the comment button on the upper right: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOI-2017-0002-0001
“The most contested of these Monuments have always seemed to be Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, both of which – along with nearby Canyon of the Ancients – have fossil fuels beneath them. While those two Monuments have received the majority of headline coverage, California’s Carrizo Plain also sits near oil deposits and some oil companies maintain mineral rights below the protected lands in the Monument, and the Mojave Trails National Monument is under threat from the controversial Cadiz Water Project, which aims to drain an aquifer in the Mojave desert to water urban lawns in Orange County. “
I’ve put CA first, but the full list is below:
California
Berryessa Snow Mountain
Carrizo Plain
Giant Sequoia (REDWOODS!!!!!)
Mojave Trails
Sand to Snow
San Gabriel Mountains
Arizona
Grand Canyon-Parashant (GRAND CAYON!!!)
Ironwood Forest
Sonoran Desert
Vermillion Cliffs
Colorado
Canyons of the Ancients
Idaho
Craters of the Moon
Maine
Katahadin Woods and Waters
Montana
Upper Missouri River Breaks
Nevada
Basin and Range
Gold Butte
New Mexico
Organ Mountains – Desert Peaks
Rio Grande del Norte
Oregon
Cascade Siskiyou
Utah
Bears Ears (NATIVE AMERICAN DRAWINGS!!!)
Grand Staircase-Escalante
Washington
Hanford Reach
In addition to the 22 land-based National Monuments, five marine National Monuments are being “reviewed” in accordance with the “Implementing an America-First Offshore Energy Strategy” executive order:
Marianas Trench
Northeast Canyons and Seamounts
Pacific Remote Islands
Papahanaumokuakea
Our government officials should not lie under oath. They should protect our democracy and resist foreign takeovers. Pick up the phone and call your state House Rep and your Senators and tell them we need a special prosecutor appointed to lead an independent investigation into Russia’s interference in the US elections and Attorney General Jeff Session’s perjury.
US intelligence has concluded “That Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered a campaign to influence the U.S. election "to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process,…”
To find out who represents you: http://www.whoismyrepresentative.com/
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