Together we made history last year by passing a health care law that is providing no-cost preventive health care services, ensuring that people with pre-existing conditions have access to health care coverage, and preventing insurance companies from dropping patients when they become sick. But on January 12th, Speaker Boehner has scheduled a vote in the House of Representatives to take away every piece of the new health care law that benefits for women and their families. Speaker Boehner's plan to repeal the health care law will re-open the door to discriminatory insurance practices like charging women more than men for health care coverage and denying coverage to domestic violence survivors and mothers who have had Caesarean sections under the guise that these are "pre-existing conditions." Repeal would return us to the days of being at the mercy of the insurance industry, and we can’t go back. Help us stop their efforts. Tell your Member of Congress to vote NO on the repeal of the new health care law.
Then take action with CREDO and tell Democrats to stay strong on behalf of health care reform!
Anti-choice extremist John Boehner is about to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He will control the agenda — and his attacks are ready to go. But so are we. Send a message to John Boehner that you are not going to stand by while he attacks our right to choose.
Republicans have said from the beginning that they were determined to defeat Obama and overturn all the progress we’ve made in the past two years, and they’re going to pull every trick out of the hat to try and roll back the important work we’ve done. Rep. Darrell Issa, the incoming Chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee announced that he would lead 6 major investigations in the first three months of the new Congress! We need to let the Democratic leaders know that they have our support to fight back with all they got. Sign this Petition to Leader Pelosi that she has our Support!
Senators Tom Udall and Jeff Merkley are pushing for rule changes that would end the abuse of the filibuster. In the 1960s, only 8% of all bills were blocked by a filibuster—but since 2006 that has ballooned to more than 70%. In the last two Congressional terms Democrats have had to overcome more than 275 filibusters—the most in history. This vote is not about ending the filibuster or crushing minority rights in government. It's about returning our government to a more democratic and transparent process. Those changes could come up for a vote as soon as this week. So we need to speak out right away to show how important this reform is to voters at home. Can you call Sens. Boxer and Feinstein and ask them to support rules reform to end abuse of the filibuster? You can get talking points here, and the toll-free number to connect to the Capitol Hill switchboard is 1-877-426-8013. Report your call here.
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