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Related: About this forumEmail 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 dont have the numbers to stop the bill from passing; thats why the GOP is using reconciliation in the first place. But that doesnt 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, thats what this moment demands of them and what we expect.
Because as weve 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 havent committed to dragging this vote to a grinding, screeching, clanking halt. Theyre acting like the MAGA bill is business as usual, and we know its anything but.
Some of our Democratic Senators need a wake-up call from their constituents ASAP; others just need a reminder that well have their backs when they fight as hard as possible. Weve 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 were 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 thats 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 lawmakers 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 dont 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 wont 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 thats a huge deal -- because this bill heads back to the House if it passes the Senate, and well keep on fighting it there, too. Were in this fight for the long haul, and were 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!

msongs
(71,815 posts)ShazzieB
(21,177 posts)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
msongs
(71,815 posts)ShazzieB
(21,177 posts)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)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.)