URGENT! Congress must take these actions NOW!

The November 2022 election results show Republicans with a small majority in the House and Democrats with a small majority in the Senate.  WE MUST URGE CONGRESS TO TAKE A NUMBER OF ACTIONS NOW in late November and December 2022 before the new Congress convenes in January 2023, when all legislation that is pending now will die.

 

I have been urging ALL THREE of our members of Congress to PASS MANY good pieces of pending legislation:

– Stay in session past the scheduled adjournment date

– Work evenings and weekends to PASS the bills

– Use the “Budget Reconciliation” process to avoid filibusters and accomplish many good things

 

I have been urging our House member to:

– PASS good legislation NOW because starting in January the Republicans will kill all good legislation

– Hold Trump in “Contempt of Congress”

 

I have been urging our Senators to:

– Confirm many good appointments to federal judiciary positions and other roles

– Abolish the filibuster altogether

– Even without abolishing the filibuster altogether, carve out exceptions so the Senate can pass good legislation

– Pass the MANY, MANY good bills that have piled up in the Senate without floor votes, so they become invisible

– Demand FLOOR VOTES on those bills, so Republicans will have to go on public record with their “no” votes

 

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are NOT the progressives they want us to think they are.

They have supported some very bad legislation and blocked some very good legislation.

Besides holding Republicans accountable, we must hold Democrats accountable too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org