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usonian

(19,166 posts)
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 08:48 PM Jun 25

Email from Indivisible. TAKE ACTION: Tell your Democratic senators we expect them to fight like hell on the floor!

Copying it here. I didn't see a CC license, but I think they'll be happy if I share it. Just found the link!

https://indivisible.actionkit.com/mailings/view/118759

Go there for lots of links and nice formatting.

Senate Republicans want to vote on their Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching reconciliation bill this weekend, and that means “vote-a-rama” -- when senators can propose endless changes that their colleagues then need to vote on -- could start as soon as tomorrow.

If all Republicans stick together, Democrats simply don’t have the numbers to stop the bill from passing; that’s why the GOP is using reconciliation in the first place. But that doesn’t mean Senate Democrats are powerless.

Your Democratic senators can make voting on this bill slower, more divisive, and more politically damaging than any vote these Republicans have ever taken. In fact, that’s what this moment demands of them and what we expect.

Because as we’ve said from the beginning, the longer we can drag this process out, the more we can toxify a bill that Republicans are already publicly tearing apart. And the more we can toxify the bill, the better the chance we can ultimately defeat it.

Here are two steps to have an impact…

Step 1: Call your Dem senator
Our sources on Capitol Hill are hearing that Senator Schumer and the Democratic brass haven’t committed to dragging this vote to a grinding, screeching, clanking halt. They’re acting like the MAGA bill is business as usual, and we know it’s anything but.

Some of our Democratic Senators need a wake-up call from their constituents ASAP; others just need a reminder that we’ll have their backs when they fight as hard as possible. We’ve provided a script and will connect you to the right office, but you need to make the call.

Call your Democratic senators right now and urge them to do everything in their power to delay and disrupt the votes on the big, ugly Republican reconciliation bill.

Make the call
Step 2: Share your own amendment
The vote-a-rama process we mentioned above allows Senate Democrats to propose change after change to this bill, with virtually no limit on how many painful votes they can force Republicans to take.

We want to see as many amendments offered as possible, and we’re calling on this community to help craft some and share them with your senators! Be creative. Go wild. Just try to focus them on taxes and spending -- because that’s all that can go into a reconciliation bill.

Your amendment could be something like:

An amendment to transfer all the dollars for ICE funding to NPR and PBS, instead

An amendment to tax recipients of luxury jets gifted by foreign governments at 100% of the jet's market value

An amendment to cut every lawmaker’s salary and per diem by the same percentage SNAP gets cut

Some of your suggestions may be silly. Some may be poignant. Some will be genuinely good policy. Pretty much all of them will be better than the disaster MAGA Republicans want to force on us, so don’t be shy:

Send your proposed amendments to your Democratic senators here -- and remind them to do all they can to force as many painful votes as possible.

Submit amendment
We won’t lie to you: Delaying and disrupting this reconciliation process with politically toxic votes and high-powered floor speeches may or may not help flip the Republican votes needed to kill the bill. But without a doubt, it will highlight how harmful the GOP agenda is and create moments that help swell our resistance movement.

And that’s a huge deal -- because this bill heads back to the House if it passes the Senate, and we’ll keep on fighting it there, too. We’re in this fight for the long haul, and we’re glad to have you on our side.

Thank you,
Indivisible Team

Oops, share your amendments here if you also share them with Democratic senators, or if your don't have one share it with those of us who do!

I have one who is 🔥 en fuego 🔥. Goes by the name Padilla.

Viva Padilla! Chinga la migra! Chinga tu maga!

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Email from Indivisible. TAKE ACTION: Tell your Democratic senators we expect them to fight like hell on the floor! (Original Post) usonian Jun 25 OP
and the odds of democrats doing any of this are....? nt msongs Jun 25 #1
Defeatism is not a good look. ShazzieB Jun 25 #2
well thats how the senators look to me nt msongs Jun 25 #4
I think our senators have been doing a number of things. ShazzieB Jun 25 #5
Thanks for posting this! ShazzieB Jun 25 #3

ShazzieB

(21,177 posts)
2. Defeatism is not a good look.
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 09:10 PM
Jun 25
defeatism
noun
de·​feat·​ism di-ˈfē-ˌti-zəm dē-

an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defeatism

ShazzieB

(21,177 posts)
5. I think our senators have been doing a number of things.
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 10:10 PM
Jun 25

They may not have a lot of tangible results yet, but I think they're getting under some Republican skin. In my book, that's not nothing.

ShazzieB

(21,177 posts)
3. Thanks for posting this!
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 09:13 PM
Jun 25

I used the form to send a message to my senators and will call them tomorrow. (Nobody answers the phone at night, and there doesn't seem to be any way to leave a voice mail message, at least not in my experience.)

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