Tell our Members of Congress and Biden: Support the Biden Administration’s supplemental funding package!
Call BOTH of your Senators.
SF Office: (415) 981-9369
DC Office: (202) 224-3553
Email (use your own words): Sen. Padilla’s email contact form
Call ONE of the Representatives. Note: only one of these Congressmembers represents you. Find out which one here.
SF Office: (415) 556-4862
DC Office: (202) 225-4965
Email (use your own words): Rep. Pelosi’s email contact form
San Mateo Office: (650) 342-0300
DC Office: (202) 225-3531
Email (use your own words): Rep. Mullin’s email contact form
Contact the White House via their comment line or web form.
Email (use your own words): Web Contact Form
White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111.
NOTE: This line is active during the following hours: Tuesday-Thursday between 11am-3pm EST
You can talk to a human being or leave a voicemail during these hours.
You can now also contact President Biden via Resistbot.
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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.
For your Members of Congress
I want [the Representative/the Senator] to support the Biden Administration’s proposal for additional emergency funding, and to finish the job of funding the government generally.
For President Biden
I support your $100 billion emergency funding request and your call for Congress to finish the job of funding the government.
Background
On Friday, the Biden Administration sent to Congress a request for $100 billion in emergency funding. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young, said to reporters:
The world is watching and the American people rightly expect their leaders to come together and deliver on these priorities, and I urge Congress to address them as part of a comprehensive, bipartisan agreement in the weeks ahead.
We don’t necessarily agree with everything in this funding package. The Hill has a detailed inventory; there are things in there we support, things we don’t, and things on which we’re divided.
On balance, we support more of this funding package than we oppose. Moreover, we support funding the important work of government—and for a superpower like the United States, helping out where we can is part of that work.
The MAGA Republican chaos-agents who are holding the government on a collision course with shutdown (time remaining: 24 days as of Wednesday, October 25) appreciate that the nation’s attention is fixed on their clown-show. We need to turn that attention away from their political theater and toward the important work that won’t get done if the government shuts down. There’s a lot domestically, but our responsibilities abroad are also included in that.
References
White House asks Congress for $100B to support Israel, Ukraine, border efforts, The Hill, 10/20/2023
This Week's US Congressional Call Scripts:
Tell President Biden and our Members of Congress: continue to stand firm against MAGA government shutdown blackmail
Tell President Biden and our Members of Congress: Stand fast, don’t surrender to MAGA Republican shutdown blackmail!
Republicans are playing brazen, dangerous hardball in order to force Trump-era immigration policies in exchange for support for Ukraine, and Democrats are considering caving to their demands. Tell your Senators to reject these draconian policies.
Thank you for standing strong against MAGA Republican extremism in favor of protecting a functioning government by providing enough votes to pass a Continuing Resolution without the draconian cuts MAGA extremists were seeking. Please remain strong in protecting our values in the second batch of bills in February.
Tell your Members of Congress: Support the Biden Administration’s supplemental funding package!
We repeat: Call President Biden and your Members of Congress and tell them: "Hold fast! Do not surrender to political blackmail—even if it means a government shutdown!"
We’ve enjoyed decades of online life with strong protections for freedom of speech. It’s a complicated subject of rights and responsibilities, just as life—online and off—is complicated. But while the current state of things is not perfect and there may still be room for improvement, it’s a pretty good balance on the whole.
A bill introduced in the previous Congress and reintroduced in this year threatens to upset that balance. As is so often the case, the proposal is ostensibly “for the children;” the new bill is called the Kids Online Safety Act. It would force messaging services like iMessage, Signal, and WhatsApp, along with social media services like Twitter, Facebook, and Mastodon, to gatekeep who can participate in online life and to monitor what we say.
This is a dangerous, poorly-thought-out bill with a dangerously high number of bipartisan cosponsors in the Senate. We must stop this bill from becoming law.
As the House and Senate begin debating the ransom deal legislation today, it is possible that Republicans will raise new extortion demands. Our response has to be: “Not one penny more! Not one policy retreat further!”
Tell the President and our senators that President Biden should withdraw the nomination of Elliott Abrams because it is antithetical to the Biden administration’s diplomatic support for democracies worldwide.
Contact your Members of Congress and tell them: pass the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act of 2023 and show that they are serious about binding the Supreme Court to a code of ethics.