{"id":211,"date":"2021-07-15T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/delaware\/press-releases\/common-cause-delaware-and-25-other-grassroots-organizations-thank-senators-carper-and-coons-for-cosponsoring-the-for-the-people-act-and-request-meetings-with-them\/"},"modified":"2021-07-15T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:00:40","slug":"common-cause-delaware-and-25-other-grassroots-organizations-thank-senators-carper-and-coons-for-cosponsoring-the-for-the-people-act-and-request-meetings-with-them","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/delaware\/press\/common-cause-delaware-and-25-other-grassroots-organizations-thank-senators-carper-and-coons-for-cosponsoring-the-for-the-people-act-and-request-meetings-with-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Delaware and 25 Other Grassroots Organizations Thank Senators Carper and Coons for Cosponsoring the \u2018For the People Act\u2019 and Request Meetings with Them"},"template":"","class_list":["post-211","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"The For the People Act would create national standards for voting access, get big money out of politics, enforce ethics standards for all three branches of government, and require congressional districts to be drawn by a non-partisan commission so that no one party has an advantage.","featured_image":5942,"press_type":146,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"43\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":198}"],"related_issues":[62,92,105,109,410,412],"related_work":false,"location":10},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Common Cause Delaware and 25 other grassroots organizations have sent letters to both of Delaware\u2019s US Senators, requesting meetings to discuss how the \u2018For the People Act\u2019 can be moved forward.<\/span>\r\n\r\nRead the letter to Senator Carper <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\r\n\r\nRead the letter to Senator Coons <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe For the People Act would create national standards for voting access, get big money out of politics, enforce ethics standards for all three branches of government, and require congressional districts to be drawn by a non-partisan commission so that no one party has an advantage.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIt was passed by the US House in March, but last month, debate on the bill was blocked by a Republican filibuster. According to <\/span>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer<\/span><\/a>, even after last month\u2019s Republican filibuster of the bill, \u201cWe have several serious options for how to reconsider this issue and advance legislation.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn part, the letters read: \u201cWe greatly appreciate your sponsorship of the For the People Act and your votes for cloture on the motion to proceed last month. And we would like to meet with you in the near future to learn what steps you are planning to take to address the filibuster, so we can move the bill forward.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u201cWe believe, simply put, that protecting the freedom of the American people \u2013 all of us \u2013 is much more important than preserving a Senate rule, favored by supporters of Jim Crow, that isn\u2019t even in the Constitution. In fact, the Framers considered, and rejected, supermajority requirements to pass legislation. Thus, we ask that you take the lead in moving the Senate beyond obstructionism by working with your colleagues to fix the filibuster, so that it cannot be the barrier it is now. It must be modified, so we can pass the For the People Act and make the United States the great democracy it claims to be,\u201d the letters said.<\/span>\r\n\r\nRecent polling shows<\/span><\/a> that when they learn about the For the People Act\u2019s provisions, more than two-thirds of Americans support the bill -- including more than half of Republicans and 70% of independents.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has made it clear that defeating the For the People Act is<\/span> his top priority<\/span><\/a> for this session of Congress. Read about a January conference call between special interest donor groups and Sen. McConnell\u2019s policy advisor <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe letters to Senators Carper and Coons were signed by Common Cause Delaware; American Promise Delaware; Building People Power Campaign; Delaware Democratic Socialists of America; Delaware Get Money Out; Delaware Hispanic Commission; Delaware Interfaith Power and Light; Delaware Poor People\u2019s Campaign; Delaware Public Employees, AFSCME, Council 81; Delaware United; Delaware Women for Inclusion; Equality Delaware; Indivisible Highlands and Beyond; League of Women Voters of Delaware; Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League; Network Delaware; Planned Parenthood of Delaware; Progressive Democrats for Delaware; Sierra Club Delaware Chapter; Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice; Stand Indivisible; Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware; Unitarian Universalists Delaware Advocacy Network; Wilmington (DE) Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; Women\u2019s March Sussex; and Working Families Party Delaware.<\/span>"}}]},"yoast_head":"\nCommon Cause Delaware and 25 Other Grassroots Organizations Thank Senators Carper and Coons for Cosponsoring the \u2018For the People Act\u2019 and Request Meetings with Them - 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