Call Your Michigan Senators Senator Debbie Stabenow: 1-202-224-4822 Senator Gary Peters: 1-202-224-6221 AND Your U.S. Representative Click HERE to Find Your Rep’s Name and Phone # URGE THEM To Support Pres. Biden’s COVID Relief Package That Gives More Help for Struggling Families and Communities The COVID pandemic and the subsequent economic and health crisis it triggered is devastating families across the country. As of January 28th, 29.8 million people have contracted the COVID virus and 433,000 have died from it. President Joe Biden’s new Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellin, said that the “price of doing nothing is higher than the price of doing something big”. The Biden’s administration last week introduced a $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan” to help both people and the economy to recover from the […]

Tell Key U.S. Senators: Allow Witnesses & New Testimony During Trump Impeachment Trial Senators Susan Collins – Mitt Romney – Lisa Murkowski – Lamar Alexander Call Senators to Vote for Witnesses at Impeachment Trial The truth matters. That’s why it’s important that the U.S. Senate trial include space for witnesses and new evidence. Please call the following seven Republican Senators. Urge them to vote that new witnesses be allowed to testify at President Trump’s impeachment trial. Those Senators are: Romney, Murkowski, Collins, McSally, Alexander, Gardner and Capito. (Leaving a message on all their phones took me less than 10 minutes.) The vote on allowing witnesses and allowing new evidence to be heard at the trial could happen this week. Recent polling (by SurveyUSA) documented that […]

Comment on Rule Before 12/19 Click HERE to Offer Your Comments Tell Trump’s Health & Human Services what you think about a rule that would allow federally funded contractors to turn away people in need because of their religion,their sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. Need a home delivered meal and you are gay? Sorry about that!Need to enroll in Headstart and you are a gay couple? Sorry about that!Need to buy birth control pills and you are a single mother? Sorry about that!Are you Jewish and need a subsidized apartment? Sorry about that! This rule violates basic American values that all persons have worth & should be treated with dignity. HHS Rule Would Allow Discrimination vs. Women, LGBTQ People By Federal Contractors Take Action! The Trump administration has issued an […]

Call Our Senators This Friday Gary Peters: 1-202-224-6221 Debbie Stabenow: 1-202-224-4822 Urge Them to Vote for S. 1039 to Block War With Iran  Background The U.S. Senate is expected to vote this Friday on S. 1039, a bill called the “Prevention of Unconstitutional War With Iran Act of 2019” (Sen. Tom Udall, (D-New Mexico). This bill, adopted earlier in June in the House, is meant to cut off funding for a war in Iran.  The U.S. Constitution declares that a U.S. President cannot declare war without Congressional approval. We’re on the brink of a needless, destructive and costly war with Iran. Besides withdrawing from a 2015 nuclear arms containment treaty, which Iran has been in compliance with, the Trump administration instituted sanctions to cripple the Iranian economy. The U.S. deployed battleships and a battery of Patriot missiles off Iran’s coast.  Iran responded by shooting down a U.S.drone. President Trump claimed he exercised […]

 Urge Our U.S. Senators to Be Champions To Promote YES Votes on the Equality Act (Both are Equality Act Co-sponsors)  Senator Debbie Stabenow: 1-202-224-4822 & Senator Gary Peters: 1-202-224-6221 BACKGROUND  On May 17th the U.S. House voted 236 – 173 to adopt the Equality Act. Eight Republicans joined all House Democrats in support HR 5, a comprehensive bill that would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people based on housing, employment, public accommodations, jury service, federal funding and education.  ADOPTION OF THIS BILL IS A HISTORIC MILESTONE! This was the first time this bill was reported out of committee after it was first introduced in 2015. Thanks to all who called their U.S. Representatives to support this legislation.  […]

Call Your U.S. Representative  Urge To Vote YES on the Equality Act Vote Expected this Friday Click HERE for List of Michigan U.S. Representatives (includes phone numbers & mailing addresses)  Click HERE to find YOUR U.S. Representative BACKGROUND  This year Rep. David Cecilline (D-Rhode Island) re-introduced The Equality Act (HR 5), a bill that would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people based on housing, employment, public accommodations, jury service, federal funding and education. This bill was recently adopted by the House Judiciary Committee on a 22-10 vote to advance it to the full House. All democrats voted for the bill; all republicans voted against it.  This bill has 240 co-sponsors, enough to get adopted in the House.  Senator Jeff Merkley has also introduced […]