Advocacy: Call Your Senators!

Call:  Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto Phone: 202-224-3542 Call:  Sen. Dean Heller Phone: 202-224-6244 Senator Jeff Sessions is a dangerous man. First he built a career on opposing civil rights. Now he’s mere days away from becoming America’s next Attorney General. Sessions is

Face The Nation, 2017-01-08: Cory Booker Full Interview

Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, discusses the importance of vetting President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments and knowing the fullness of conflicts of interests, as well as talks about his plan to stop the repeal of Obamacare. The full interview aired on the

The Two Faces of Mitch McConnell

The head of Office of Government Ethics, the federal agency charged with investigating the backgrounds of Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, told Senate Democrats on Saturday that the process of vetting Trump’s picks is overwhelming the agency. Director Walter Shaub Jr. also emphasized his concern

Ethics, Conflicts of Interest and Confirmation Hearings

With the advent of the incoming #trump administration backed up by a Republican-led Congress in both houses, it’s become ever more important that we speak up, loudly and en masse, when actions are proposed that are contrary to what we the American

Oppose Nomination of Rep. Tom Price as HHS Secretary

— by Nicole Regalado, Credo Campaign Manager We don’t know all the details of Donald Trump’s plans for America yet but one thing’s clear: If you’re not male, wealthy or heterosexual, Trump’s extreme right-wing administration won’t have your back when it comes to accessing

Getting Things Right —Time to Elect Hillary and a “Working Congress” Who Will Fix Things

— Reprinted from The Democracy Initiative: How to Fix It (Visit their site to learn more.) Americans deserve a Senate that conducts its business efficiently and fairly, that prioritizes debate and transparency, and that is capable of action on the pressing challenges of our

6 #DemWomen are Leading the Fight to Take Back the Senate

Female candidates are leading the push for a Democratic return to power in the Senate as Donald Trump’s sagging poll numbers leave the Republican majority under extreme pressure. Even before Trump became the Republican presidential nominee, Democrats had a decent chance of

The Irony of Ironies via Republican Poison Pills

H.R. 2577 is a conglomeration of a number of bills (Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017) that  the Senate needs to take action on failed a super-majority vote (60 votes) for cloture (the ability to be considered and