Tell your Members of Congress: Real relief in COVID-relief bill, not business immunity!
Senator Dianne Feinstein
SF Office: (415) 393-0707
DC Office: (202) 224-3841
LA Office: (310) 914-7300
Fresno Office: (559) 485-7430
San Diego Office: (619) 231-9712
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Senator Kamala Harris
SF Office: (415) 981-9369
DC Office: (202) 224-3553
Sacramento Office: (916) 448-2787
LA Office: (213) 894-5000
San Diego Office: (619) 239-3884
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi
SF Office: (415) 556-4862
DC Office: (202) 225-4965
Email Contact: https://pelosi.house.gov/contact-me/email-me
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Rep. Jackie Speier
San Mateo Office: (650) 342-0300
DC Office: (202) 225-3531
Email Contact: https://speier.house.gov/email-jackie
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Call Script
My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
As my representative in Congress, I ask that you fight for real pandemic emergency-relief that:
Includes extension of emergency unemployment and other benefits.
Includes extension of the current eviction and foreclosure moratoriums.
Includes desperately needed aid to state and local governments.
Does NOT include business liability immunity language that provides get-out-of-jail-free cards for corporations that willfully and negligently put their customers and employees at risk by violating health & safety rules and guidelines.
Background
The COVID-19 crisis has never been more devastating. 300,000 people are dead. States and local governments who are on the front line fighting the pandemic are going bankrupt. The CARES Act relief that has been keeping some small businesses barely afloat will expire in days. So too will the extended Unemployment Benefits that have barely sustained millions of families. Hunger-lines are growing longer and longer and the national eviction and homeowner foreclosure moratoriums are about to end. Yet Republicans in Congress are blocking the emergency relief we need.
Back in May, House Democrats passed the HEROES Act providing the $3.3 trillion that is actually needed. Fearing that four Republican senators might support it, McConnell refused to allow it to be debated or voted on. We call this kind of power-play “stonewalling,” and its effect is to nullify all legislative impact by Democrats and disenfranchise the voters who elected them. Democrats then proposed a $2.2 trillion bill and asked Republicans to meet them halfway. Republicans again stonewalled. McConnell then proposed a pathetically inadequate $500 billion package that provided money for businesses and a meager extension of reduced unemployment benefits but contained NO money for state/local governments, yet did include blanket Covid-liability immunity for businesses that refuse to protect their employees and customers.
A group of moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats proposed a “compromise” $908 billion bill that is – in essence – McConnell's proposal plus an inadequate pittance for state/local governments using funds that mostly come from CARES Act money that Republicans prevented from being spent. McConnell again balked. To appease him, they are now proposing to split their so-called compromise into two bills, one containing the business aid and benefit extension and the other for state/local government aid AND the Covid-liability immunity. Everyone knows that separated from the corporate assistance bill, the second bill has no chance of ever being enacted.
Despite McConnell’s shocking opposition to any emergency relief for Americans, he is still a politician facing public pressure. State governments and even some corporations are already asking elected officials to act on pandemic relief fast. Public pressure on our Members of Congress nationwide might just get us the help we need. Indivisible National is asking members across the country to call their Members of Congress - and we’re doing the same.