Reauthorize Violence Against Women Act

 

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Leader Nancy Pelosi

SF Office: (415) 556-4862

DC Office: (202) 225-4965

Call the SF office first, but try the DC office if you can’t get through. If you get voicemail, hang up and try a few more times to talk to a real person. Don’t give up! Short direct messages are most effective.

Rep. Jackie Speier

San Mateo Office: (650) 342-0300

DC Office: (202) 225-3531

Keep calling if you don’t get through. Voicemails are logged daily into a central report across offices.

 

Call Script

Vote YES on H.R. 6545: The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2018.

Background

The Violence Against Women Act was included in a defense and health spending bill passed last month. However, it was only granted a short-term reauthorization until Dec. 7. This new version contains language about letting law enforcement officials take weapons from domestic abusers who can’t legally own them, and significantly increases funding for rape crisis centers.

H.R.6545 - Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2018, Congress.gov

 

This Week's US House Call Scripts:

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Tell your Senators: Vote NO on Cuts to Medicaid and Tax Cuts for Billionaires
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Tell your Senators: Vote NO on Cuts to Medicaid and Tax Cuts for Billionaires
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Padilla, Pelosi, Mullin, Schiff, Budget Reconciliation, Medicaid cuts, Tax cuts for billionaires

Republicans will be voting on the buget bill that cuts Medicaid as soon as tomorrow. We must tell our MoC’s - stay strong!

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Padilla, Pelosi, Mullin, Schiff, Budget Reconciliation, Medicaid cuts, Tax cuts for billionaires
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Tell Congress: Defund DOGE thieves in the budget reconciliation bill!
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Padilla, Pelosi, Mullin, Schiff, DOGE, Bduget, Medicaid cuts

Budget negotiations are stealing our Medicare, while DOGE is stealing our money. Tell your MoCs to add an amendment to the budget bill to prohbiit all money from going to DOGE.

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Hell No to MAGA's Budget Swindle!
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Hell No to MAGA's Budget Swindle!
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Trump and his MAGA regime are assaulting our democracy and threatening our economic security. To fund massive tax cuts for their billionaire buddies, they are massively cutting funds for the domestic social-safety net while increasing defense and police-state spending to historic highs.

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Tell our Members of Congress: Vote NO on Trump’s Rescission Package to protect USAID, NPR, and PBS
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Tell our Members of Congress: Vote NO on Trump’s Rescission Package to protect USAID, NPR, and PBS
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Trump may introduce a rescission bill making his cuts to the federal workforce legal. Our MOCs must say NO!

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Tell our Members of Congress: Reject Autism Lies and National Registry
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Tell our Members of Congress: Reject Autism Lies and National Registry
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Urge your Representative to publicly oppose RFK Jr.’s harmful misinformation about autism and his proposal for a national autism registry!

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Tell our Members of Congress: Oppose cuts to PBS and NPR
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Tell our Members of Congress: Oppose cuts to PBS and NPR
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Limiting or eliminating freedom of speech, has and will continue to be a prime target in authoritarian governments. We have to protect this right in order to protect all of our rights.

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Tell our Members of Congress: Join the delegation to El Salvador to stand up for Kilmar Abrego Garcia
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Tell our Members of Congress: Join the delegation to El Salvador to stand up for Kilmar Abrego Garcia
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Urge your Members of Congress to join Sen Van Hollen’s delegation to El Salvador to stand up for Kilmar Abrego Garcia and protect the US Constitution

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Tell Your Members of Congress: Defend Social Security Against Trump/Musk
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Trump/Musk have been furiously slashing and gutting the federal government so that they can extend Trump's 2017 tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy before they expire at the end of this year. Tell your Senators and Representative to defend Social Security against Trump and Musk

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Tell our Congresspeople: Stop BOP from Putting Trans Women in Men’s Prisons

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No Democratic-Party Votes for Trumpism!
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King.

Today we are confronted with the most dangerous political-constitutional crisis since the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the rise of domestic fascism. And if Trump/Musk are not stopped, American democracy will face the gravest threat since the slave-holder rebellion of the Civil War.

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