No Lame Duck TPP the multinational corporate / commercial agreement that would serve special interests while exporting U.S. jobs and hurting our families. TPP will cost nearly half a million jobs, have major negative environmental impacts, digital privacy v. copyright protection issues, destroy access to affordable medicines, and food safety.

Inclusive Prosperity Act (S 1371 - Sanders/HR 1464 - Ellison)
American needs to raise revenue and a small tax on Wall Street would raise more than $300 billion per year. Mothers pay tax when they buy diapers; shouldn't Wall Street pay a tax when they sell stocks and bonds? Prior to 1968 Wall Street did pay a financial transaction tax and it is time to do that again. We need to invest in our communities to improve our infrastructure and our environment, strengthen our financial security, expand opportunity and reduce market volatility.

End Polluter Welfare Act (S 1041 - Sanders/HR 1930 - Ellison)
A bill to eliminate certain subsidies for fossil-fuel production including: Repeals the corporate income tax exemption for publicly traded partnerships with qualifying income and gains from activities relating to fossil fuels. Designates the Powder River Basin in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming as a coal producing region. Eliminates accelerated depreciation for property that is receiving a subsidy for fossil fuel production.

Verifying Optimal Tools for Elections (HR 5131 - Johnson)
Elections are NOT a commodity.; all technology used for voting and vote counting must be open source with code available to the public for analysis. This bill will amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to make improvements to voting system technology, election official training, and protecting voting system source code. The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) will make a payment to each eligible state in which a precinct used at least one outdated voting machine to administer the regularly scheduled federal general election held in November 2012. A voting system used in an federal election in a state may not at any time during the election contain or use any election-dedicated voting system technology which is not deposited by the state with the NIST National Software Reference Library before the election.

SJ Res 5 - Udall/HJ Res 22 - Deutch
Authorizes Congress and the states to set reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by candidates and others to influence elections.

Grants Congress and the states the power to implement and enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation. Allows them to distinguish between natural persons and corporations or other artificial entities created by law, including by prohibiting such entities from spending money to influence elections.

Declares that nothing in this amendment shall be construed to grant Congress or the states the power to abridge the freedom of the press.

Download letters for your Congressional Members

• July 2016 House Letter

• July 2016 Senate Letter