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Latest Congress Watch Action Items
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Tell Congress: You Deserve a Better Bailout!
When the House of Representatives rejected a financial bailout package on Monday, Congress had an opportunity to address objections to the proposal and ensure the rights of Main Street were protected. Instead, the Senate hastily added provisions - many wholly unrelated to fixing the economy - that caused the bill to balloon to a colossal 451 pages. Most legislators haven't had the time to read or understand it. This is an outrage! Tell Congress that you deserve a better bailout.
Sign the Citizens’ Whistleblower Petition Today!
When scientific research is altered or suppressed, government contractors waste millions of taxpayer dollars, or national security documents are falsified, witnesses need to know that they can blow the whistle without reprisals endangering their careers and their lives.
We are close to ending retaliation against those who speak up – and the unmistakable, chilling message that reprisals against whistleblowers sends to all employees that they should keep quiet, or else.
Voters First Pledge 2008
In cities and states across the country, campaign finance laws that replace private financing with public grants have worked to improved elections for candidates and voters alike. It’s time to bring the benefits of Fair Elections to congressional races.
No More Taxation Without Representation
More than half a million people live in Washington, D.C. without voting representation in Congress. D.C.citizens pay U.S. taxes, fight and die for the U.S. during wartime and yet, shockingly, they have no vote in the Congress that governs them. Please join concerned citizens from around the country in flooding the Capitol with calls and emails to push through this critical and historic civil rights legislation!
Nursing Home Arbitration
We trust nursing homes to make sure our loved ones are in a safe environment, but many elderly residents are neglected. Instead of focusing on providing the best care to their residents, nursing homes are busy immunizing themselves from accountability by inserting binding mandatory arbitration clauses into the fine print of their admission papers.
Tell the Senate to Go Digital
The current system for senators to submit campaign finance reports to the Federal Election Commission is a maze of back-and-forth between agencies that requires printing and re-typing the same information repeatedly. The result is an annual $250,000.00 bill to taxpayers and the delayed release of information to the public.
Call on Congress to Support Fair Elections
The problem of money and its influence in elections is fundamental and must be addressed with a fundamental solution: the public funding of congressional elections - also called Fair Elections. Demand Congress pass the "Fair Elections Now Act" and put voters back at the center of elections.
Shed Some Light On Government
From unfounded claims of "national security" and "executive privilege," the public has been given phony excuses for why we are denied information about our government. It is time to end this deception and restore transparency to our government. Ask your members of Congress to return sunlight to our nation.
Demand the Return of the Presidential Records to the Public
President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13233 to give current and previous presidents the power to withhold their records INDEFINITELY. Right now, a bipartisan bill to undo the Bush order is close to becoming a law, but it is being blocked by Senator Jeff Sessions. Tell your senators to demand a vote on the bill now.
White House: NOT for Sale
The highest office in America should not be for sale. Yet, the presidential candidates are collecting truck loads of cash from bundlers and big donors. The "Presidential Funding Act of 2007" would fix this by modernizing the presidential public funding system.
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