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NOTES 6-30-17
Our Indivisible Revolution Meeting
David Delk from Portland's Move to Amend and Alliance for Democracy Portland gave a presentation on the history
of corporations in the US, gains in autonomy and power, and Supreme Court cases that have determined their
personhood status. Proposed US Constitutional Amendment HJR48 seeks to establish that corporations do not have
constitutional rights and that money is not free speech. Post cards were filled out for David to send to Bonamici, Wyden
and Merkley asking for the renegotiation of NAFTA.

Bridging the Divide Forum in the Fall was discussed. Gail reiterated thoughts of the potential moderator who
has offered her services for free in addition to having a training session for our group in communicating with
the other side. Calls for a planning committee were made: Gail, Bruce, Mark, Carolyn, Anne, Max, John,
Patrick and Maddie volunteered. Gail is sending an email invite for the first planning session.
Mark mentioned a good book to read in preparation for this event. "The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt
Discussion of the GOP effort to repeal the ACA. A number of members have been writing and calling MOCs
and Senators. We need to continue the calls, emails and letters to our Senators per Indivisible tactics to tell
them to withhold consent and offer amendments to stop the passage of any bill that comes through:

Ask them to resist through procedure. Your Democratic Senator can draw attention to the secret process and
slow down Senate business, through a combination of filibustering and withholding consent. The rules of the
Senate are so complicated that Senators must regularly consent to waiving some of them so that they can
actually get work done. That includes shortening time for debates, expediting consideration of amendments,
and scheduling committees. Your Senator can slow the Senate down to a crawl and focus attention to
TrumpCare by withholding his or her consent on legislative business.

Ask them to filibuster by amendment. Republicans are using a special process called reconciliation to jam
through TrumpCare. This means they only need 50 senators to vote in favor in order to pass it, instead of the
usual 60. But the trade-off is that they have to allow an unlimited number of amendments. Any Senator can
file as many amendments as they want and then call them up for a vote on the Senate floor during a period
called vote-a-rama. Democratic Senators can and should plan thousands of amendments and keep them
going until Republicans agree to have public hearings on the bill.

Continue to contact the TrumpCareTen:

The ten Republican Senators are considered reasonable and can determine whether the GOPs bill moves forward.
Contact friends or family in these dates and have them make their voices heard. We can also log our concern as
Americans (after all, this bill affects the entire country, not just the Americans represented by those GOP Senators):

Susan Collins (ME), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Dean Heller (NV), Shelley Moore Capito (WV), Bill Cassidy (LA), Rob
Portman (OH), Tom Cotton (AR), Cory Gardner (CO), Jeff Flake (AZ), Pat Toomey (PA) and Dan Sullivan (AK). Go
to (https://www.trumpcareten.org/ ) for state-by-state facts and senate office contact numbers.

Letters to Senators Merkley and Wyden were written and have been mailed.
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Event Actions:
Thursday July 6 from 2 to 3pm, attend the Washington County Town Hall Meeting, co-hosted with Senator
Wyden at the Conestoga Recreation and Aquatic Center, 9985 SW 125th Ave, Beaverton, OR 97008
Congresswoman Bonamici (1st District Oregon official site)

Tuesday August 1st 6:30 8:00 p.m., State Representative Richard Vial (HD 26) and State Senator Kim Thatcher
will hold a post-session legislative update town hall.

Sherwood Center for the Arts

Main Hall
22689 SW Pine Street
Sherwood, OR 97140

We want to ask him why he didn't support corporate tax reform and taxing those that don't pay their fair share.

Websites for our elected leaders ((thank you Wendy))

Richard Vial https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/vial
Kim Thatcher https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/thatcher
Kate Brown http://www.oregon.gov/gov/pages/index.aspx
Suzanne Bonamici http://bonamici.house.gov/
Jeff Merkley https://www.merkley.senate.gov/
Ron Wyden https://www.wyden.senate.gov/
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