House voting on bill (HR 10) to rewrite Dodd-Frank and take away post-2008 financial protections for consumers and small businesses. If you have extra time this week, call your Rep to oppose this bill!
State level: CA’s single-payer health bill passed the CA Senate 23-14 and will now advance to the Assembly. It will likely be amended there to include taxes to pay for the measure, which will then require 2/3 votes in both chambers.
Issa’s activities: (Local section)
It took Darrell Issa until Friday to post a press release about 45’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, awkwardly straddling the fence by both giving support and hinting at disagreement with Trump: “…I would have preferred the President work within the agreement to ensure other nations are doing their fair share. It’s noteworthy the President instructed negotiations to begin immediately on re-entry or on crafting a better deal to ensure more equitable contributions from our partners around the world.” Representative Issa, your district deserves to have a leader who stands up to an ignorant White House.
6/1 – SD Union Tribune reports the ACLU states the conditions the city of Vista has placed on the Tuesday Issa protests violate the First Amendment, and other reports indicated they threaten to sue the city unless it removes restrictions.
Monitoring Closely:
HR 10 “Financial Choice Act of 2017” Deregulation for Wall Street VOTE THIS WEEK IN HOUSE!
HR 354 Defund Planned Parenthood Act
HR 1021/S361 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to deem specified terrorist activities as a renunciation of nationality
S 295/276 Divide Ninth Circuit into two and add more federal judges for Trump to appoint
HR 781 Allow charitable organizations (churches) to make political statements
HR 727 To prohibit federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after 2019
HR 861 Eliminate EPA
HR 1510 Elimination of Department of Education
S 993 Prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from reclassifying broadband Internet access service as a telecommunications service and from imposing certain regulations on providers.
S 1126 Prevent certain federal funding to sanctuary cities
Recommended Action: Call Rep. Issa to let him know that you see his lack of leadership and hypocrisy around Climate Change and that as his constituent, you expect him to stand up to the ignorant scientific data that 45 has given and pledge commitment to reducing carbon emissions in his district.
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