Here is what I have done: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/. This is my letter. feel free to use any or all of it to write your own letter.
Mr. President I would like to do what ever I can to encourage you to support the For The People Act. I know this is in process but I cannot personally tell you how important I feel the passage of t…
Here is what I have done: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/. This is my letter. feel free to use any or all of it to write your own letter.
Mr. President I would like to do what ever I can to encourage you to support the For The People Act. I know this is in process but I cannot personally tell you how important I feel the passage of this act is. There are many details to your day as president, I’m sure, but I feel that passage of this act relates to all, ALL, of the details of what is happening in our country from racial violence, to international trade, and to bringing our population towards more involvement in its government.
I am writing because I feel that without your visible leadership on this issue no matter what else you may accomplish it will be dust in the wind of a history that is further sustained by minority power in the US. This would simply be a tragedy of enormous proportion. I feel that this requires frequent, clear, visible leadership from the top.
What I understand now is that you are not speaking out visibly and frequently because you feel that this is the proper functioning of our government where you allow the house and the senate to ‘do their jobs’ and also because you feel that it would bring you into a position of having to decide for or against the filibuster in its current form and you “believe in unlimited debate” in the senate. I submit to you that we, the People, were just barely able to deliver you to the White House with an even split in the senate. We, the people, need your leadership in bringing the For The People Act through the senate. The filibuster in its current form doesn’t, from my perspective, encourage debate at least not the public, visible debate on the senate floor that I would like. In its current form the filibuster ends debate, empties the chamber and stifles even the process of bringing potential change forward.
I strongly urge you, as I did with my personal vote, to become loud and visible on this issue. We need this as a country and I need it as an individual if I am to maintain faith in our system of government.
Where are you in NC? I’m in New Hanover County. My federal representatives are all Republicans. SIGH!
In place of the word “filibuster,” use the word “sabotage,” as “filibustero” was applied to pirates. The theory of the filibuster was meant to sabotage legislation by the minority. How does that encourage debate? Without the filibuster, would civil rights legislation have been passed sooner? What about anti-lynching legislation? Mitch “scorched earth” McConnell would have made an excellent pirate, given his ruthlessness.
I'm out on Hattaras island town of Waves. I clearly agree on the Filibuster. Interesting to note that it is just a simple rule of the senate, not a law or anything with real authority, just a device. And, why has it survived previous times when the democrats could have gotten rid of it? I have met a few Dems who are afraid of what might happen when/if the Reb's gain majority again.... but truly that is living by fear. Never a good place.
Yes! I will also send a copy of your excellent letter to the WH and a version of it to my senators, who I thought, foolishly, that I didn't have to worry too much about as they are both Dems, but their recent lack of support of the minimum wage part of the Rescue Plan has made me realize I need to keep a closer eye on them. Thank you for this!
Here is what I have done: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/. This is my letter. feel free to use any or all of it to write your own letter.
Mr. President I would like to do what ever I can to encourage you to support the For The People Act. I know this is in process but I cannot personally tell you how important I feel the passage of this act is. There are many details to your day as president, I’m sure, but I feel that passage of this act relates to all, ALL, of the details of what is happening in our country from racial violence, to international trade, and to bringing our population towards more involvement in its government.
I am writing because I feel that without your visible leadership on this issue no matter what else you may accomplish it will be dust in the wind of a history that is further sustained by minority power in the US. This would simply be a tragedy of enormous proportion. I feel that this requires frequent, clear, visible leadership from the top.
What I understand now is that you are not speaking out visibly and frequently because you feel that this is the proper functioning of our government where you allow the house and the senate to ‘do their jobs’ and also because you feel that it would bring you into a position of having to decide for or against the filibuster in its current form and you “believe in unlimited debate” in the senate. I submit to you that we, the People, were just barely able to deliver you to the White House with an even split in the senate. We, the people, need your leadership in bringing the For The People Act through the senate. The filibuster in its current form doesn’t, from my perspective, encourage debate at least not the public, visible debate on the senate floor that I would like. In its current form the filibuster ends debate, empties the chamber and stifles even the process of bringing potential change forward.
I strongly urge you, as I did with my personal vote, to become loud and visible on this issue. We need this as a country and I need it as an individual if I am to maintain faith in our system of government.
Where are you in NC? I’m in New Hanover County. My federal representatives are all Republicans. SIGH!
In place of the word “filibuster,” use the word “sabotage,” as “filibustero” was applied to pirates. The theory of the filibuster was meant to sabotage legislation by the minority. How does that encourage debate? Without the filibuster, would civil rights legislation have been passed sooner? What about anti-lynching legislation? Mitch “scorched earth” McConnell would have made an excellent pirate, given his ruthlessness.
I'm out on Hattaras island town of Waves. I clearly agree on the Filibuster. Interesting to note that it is just a simple rule of the senate, not a law or anything with real authority, just a device. And, why has it survived previous times when the democrats could have gotten rid of it? I have met a few Dems who are afraid of what might happen when/if the Reb's gain majority again.... but truly that is living by fear. Never a good place.
Yes! I will also send a copy of your excellent letter to the WH and a version of it to my senators, who I thought, foolishly, that I didn't have to worry too much about as they are both Dems, but their recent lack of support of the minimum wage part of the Rescue Plan has made me realize I need to keep a closer eye on them. Thank you for this!