Long Islanders – if you are in Tom Suozzi’s congressional district, he is hosting a Town Hall this Thursday, February 23 at 7pm at the Mid-Island Y, 45 Manetto Hill Road, Plainview, NY.
Attend if you can, help spread the word, and raise your voice about the issues that matter to you!
The week of February 18–26 is the first recess of the 115th Congress—time specifically set aside for members of Congress to meet with constituents and get the pulse of the communities they represent.
This is the perfect time to raise our voices. We will show up at our elected officials’ events, town halls, other public appearances, and even plan our own events, if they refuse to meet with us, to make it clear to those who represent us, as well as to the media, that tolerance of Trump’s hurtful agenda is unacceptable and politically toxic.
Will you join fellow constituents and attend a Resistance Recess action near you?
Click here to enter your ZIP Code or view the map to search for an event near you. If you don’t see an event with your member of Congress listed, click “Create a New Event” below and add your event! We’ll help recruit fellow constituents to join you.
In just a few short years, the CFPB has reined in abuses by debt collectors, taken on for-profit colleges, protected home-buyers from unscrupulous lenders, investigated predatory private student loan companies, insisted on mortgage safeguards, recouped millions for military families who were overcharged or lost homes to foreclosure, unearthed the unethical practices of student debt collectors and shed light on dozens of predatory lending practices and consumer scams.
Since it was created in 2011, the CFPB has returned roughly $11.8 billion to 29 million consumers. That’s an average of $407 for the equivalent of 9 percent of the U.S. population.
Yet, the Consumer Protection Agency is now at risk of being defunded, eliminating a fund that the CFPB uses to reimburse victims of fraud, allowing other regulators overrule the agency, with limits placed on what kind of data CFPB can collect.
We know that Senator Warren will fight fiercely for her brainchild and will work hard to protect millions of everyday Americans.
Click here to sign a petition to Protect our Consumer Protection Agency.
We have had reports from members who have gone to airports to volunteer their time as translators, and have witnessed terrible discrimination, even during the stay of the ban.
We have had reports from members who have gone to airports to volunteer their time as translators, and have witnessed terrible discrimination, even during the stay of the ban.
Please click here to call Governor Cuomo’s office hotline, and raise your voice if you see any incidents of bias and/or discrimination.
Please call
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security is taking comments right now about the appointment of Steve Bannon to the National Security Council at this line:
202-224-4751
Bannon, as a white nationalist and self-described “Leninist [who wants] to destroy the system,” is an active threat to U.S. and perhaps world stability, call and register your protest.
The calls are coming so quickly there is a recorded voice asking for name and number for call back.
PLEASE call NOW.
The petition to Congress reads:
“Support legislation to stop Donald Trump’s unconstitutional and anti-Muslim attack on refugees and immigrants from Muslim-majority countries.”
Democrats, including progressive champion Senator Chris Murphy and ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee Senator Dianne Feinstein, are introducing legislation to stop Trump’s Muslim ban, and we need to build support for them now.
Both Senators Murphy and Feinstein have stated that they will be introducing legislation to protect refugee and immigrant communities within the next week. Senator Murphy is introducing legislation to “immediately overturn Trump’s hateful and dangerous executive order.” The bill would withhold any funding to enforce the executive order and declares it illegal based on the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which banned discrimination against immigrants on the basis of national origin.
Similarly, the first of two bills that Senator Feinstein is introducing will rescind the executive order. Her second bill will amend the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act to add extra layers of protection to block the president’s authority to single out groups of people to bar from entering the United States. As long as immigrants, refugees and their families are under attack, we need to push our elected officials in Congress to fight back. They must reject any efforts to use xenophobia and racism to justify deportations, the suspension of civil rights or the closure of our borders.
Sign the petition here:
https://act.credoaction.com/sign/block_refugee_eo?t=4&akid=21534.12326657.yZvwd9
TIME SENSITIVE: The Devos vote is tomorrow, 1/31/17. Take action today, if you do not support Devos’ nomination. Spend five minutes and call senators in your area:
If you can’t get through, try again.
Susan Collins (ME)
207-622-8414 and 202-224-2523
Zipcodes: 03901-04992, 04009, 04057, 04451, 04760
Lamar Alexander (TN)
615-736-5129 and 202-224-4944
Zipcodes: 37010-38589, 38024, 37918, 37360, 37043
Lisa Murkowski (AK)
907-586-7277 and 202-224-6665
Zipcodes: 99510-99950, 99517, 99507, 99707, 99709
Johnny Isakson (GA)
770-661-0999 and 202-224-3643
Zipcodes: 30002-39901, 300042, 30542, 31126, 31141
Orrin Hatch (UT)
801-524-4380 and 202-224-5251
Zipcodes: 84001-84791, 84070, 84106, 84604, 84630
Richard Burr (NC)
336-631-5125 and 202-224-3154 and 910-251-1058 and 828-350-2437
Zipcodes: 27006-28909, 27104, 27110, 27605, 28280
Michael Enzi (WY)
202-224-3424
Zipcodes: 82001-83414, 82007, 82072, 82834, 83011
Dr. Bill Cassidy (LA)
202-224-5824
Zipcodes: 70001-71497, 70067, 70505, 71105, 71428
Pat Roberts (KS)
202-224-4774
Zipcodes: 66002-67954, 66046, 66801, 67490, 67578
Tim Scott (SC)
202-224-6121
Zipcodes: 29059-29945, 29059, 29423, 29412, 29622
Rand Paul (KY)
202-224-4343
Zipcodes: 40014-40939, 40014, 40939, 41413, 42740
Gather your friends and raise your voices at a postcard-writing party!
Write to your elected officials and send a “postcard flurry” of advocacy. Interested in hosting?
Contact us at info@raisingvoicesusa.org for information.