Thank your Representative for passing H.R. 4 and the $3.5T Budget Resolution
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My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
Thank you for passing HR4 and the $3.5T Budget Resolution yesterday in the US House. We are asking you to prioritize passing the AFJP or the human infrastructure bill under which the Build Back Better priorities are covered - child care, home health care, paid family leave, universal pre-K, lowering prescription drug prices, climate initiatives, restoration of tax fairness, and housing protections for working Americans.
Once these critical legislative priorities have been adopted by the House and the Reconciliation Bill passed in the Senate, we support the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill recently passed by the US Senate. We want to assure you that we have your back in this effort.
Background
Yesterday the House passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR4), which will now go to the Senate for debate. Grassroots organizations around the country, including Indivisible, are advocating strongly for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which reinstates parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 struck down by several recent SCOTUS decisions. This legislation will also serve as a roadblock for Republican state legislatures bent on restricting access to the vote. The bill faces stiff opposition from Senate Republicans, who recently blocked passage of another voting rights bill, the For the People Act. In order for the Senate to pass this bill, the filibuster must be eliminated or reformed.
On the same day, the House passed a $3.5 trillion budget resolution, which will be critical for passing the “human infrastructure bill” (also known as the Reconciliation bill) in September. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill (BIB, or “Invest in America Act”) passed by the US Senate August 10 has to be voted on by September 27 based on today’s agreement between Speaker Pelosi and moderate democrats in the House, who had insisted on passing the BIB first. We are asking our representatives to resist this and pass the two infrastructure bills together, because once the corporate-friendly BIB is passed, conservative Democrats may withdraw their support for the broader reconciliation bill.