Action Alert: #EndTheFilibuster
Urge Sen. Feinstein to End the Filibuster
"I think it's a part of Senate tradition, which creates a sobering
effect on the body, which is healthy."
Senate Republicans have made it abundantly clear that they will utilize the undemocratic Senate filibuster to thwart any legislation of which they disapprove, allowing the Republicans to essentially dictate the Biden agenda despite having lost the election decisively. Although the Senate is split 50-50, the Democrats represent 41.5 million more people than their Republican counterparts.
If the filibuster remains in place, there is no hope that the Senate will enact any of the important measures that have already passed the House, like the For the People Act or the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
Currently, three Democratic senators are blocking their party colleagues from getting rid of the filibuster so that the Senate can actually legislate: Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, and California's own Dianne Feinstein.
Feinstein needs to hear from her constituents! Please take action to contact her and urge her to support ending the filibuster.
Best - Phone her! Washington insiders tell us that Feinstein pays more attention to constituent phone calls than other methods of contact. Phoning is quick and easy. Just tell whoever answers that you're calling "to urge Sen. Feinstein to support ending the filibuster." That's it! If you want to say more about why, we've included some links for more background info below.
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Washington DC Office (202) 224-3841
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San Francisco Office (415) 393-0707
Next Best - Email her. Compose a short note about why you think it is important for Sen. Feinstein to support ending the filibuster. Again, you can use the background info below to guide you. Click here for Sen. Feinstein's contact page. If you email her office, please let us know.
Thank you for taking action!
Additional background information ...
Ending the filibuster "would require the assent of the more conservative-leaning Democrats such as West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema and California’s Dianne Feinstein, who have defended the filibuster. It’s time for these and other Democrats to live up to their label and defend democracy instead."
A discussion with Adam Jentleson, Author of "Killswitch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy".
Former President Barack Obama on Thursday called for the elimination of the Senate's filibuster rule if it is used to block sweeping voting reforms, labeling the chamber's long-held 60-vote threshold a "Jim Crow relic."
Obama’s reference to the filibuster as a “Jim Crow relic” is a nod to its history in the 1950s and 1960s, when Southern segregationist senators used the filibuster to try to block multiple civil rights laws.