THIS IS WHAT WE DO!
Sen.
Rubio May
31, 2018
We applaud several comments
you made in media interviews earlier this week.
·
You
disagreed with President Trump’s allegation that the FBI planted a spy in his
2016 campaign.
·
You
acknowledge that “it appears that there was an investigation not of the
campaign but of certain individuals who have a history that we should be
suspicious of that predate the presidential campaign of 2015, 2016,”
·
You
dismissed moves by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in releasing three Americans
and blowing part up of the country’s nuclear facility saying “It’s all a show.
It’s a show,” and “Released three
Americans that were innocently there, blew up a facility that was probably
already damaged with plenty of other facilities. Plus here’s the bigger point:
The facility he blew up was a testing site.”
·
You
have become one of Trump’s loudest critics on China. “China is trying to
overtake the United States as the world’s most powerful country,” and “They’re
not doing it by out innovating us or out competing us, they are doing it by
stealing. They steal our intellectual property, they force our companies to
transfer this stuff over, and the only way that we are going to stop them is so
they face significant consequences for continuing what they are doing.”
In
light of the above statements, we urge
you to follow up with these positive actions in Congress:
·
Cosponsor
S.1741/H.R.3771 The Special Counsel Integrity Act
·
Introduce
legislation requiring the US to develop a negotiation strategy planned well in
advance of any face to face meetings between the leaders of North Korea and the
US to minimize the chance of impulsive knee jerk reactions that could result in
armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula or missile attacks on the US or its
allies.
·
Reject
the proposed tariffs on imports from China and President Trump’s decision today
to impose steel and aluminum tariffs on European countries, Canada and Mexico. that
would initiate a trade war, alienate our allies, raise consumer prices in the
US and eventually result in loss of US jobs.
·
Restore
credibility and honor to the US by insisting the US rejoin the Paris Climate
Agreement and adhere to previously agreed to terms of the Iran Nuclear Weapons
Treaty.
- Introduce
legislation to require that the US formulate a strategy and plan for 2025
and 2050 to assure continued US economic and military leadership in the
world with a focus on human rights, new technologies, environmental
sustainability, public health and public safety.
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We insist that you
exercise Congressional oversight and halt deplorable and inhumane actions by those
responsible for enforcement of US immigration laws and policy and implement the
following:
·
Account
for the nearly 1,500 unaccompanied minors who arrived at the border, nearly 19%
of the minors in their custody.
·
Prohibit
the Justice Department, HHS and Homeland Security from forcibly separating
children from their families at the border when US law allows people entering
the US to request asylum.
·
Investigate
horrifying details of alleged abuses that children in custody at the border are
being subjected to.
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From
Axios, May 29:
“Two
of Trump's top economic advisers, including Larry Kudlow, fear that one of the
proposals closest to his heart — automobile tariffs — would kill American jobs
and would hurt American consumers. And his lawyers aren't sure the national
security argument underpinning the idea is solid.”
These
observations and concerns have been noted in previous comment sheets from
Indivisible. How will you and members of
Congress respond?
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We urge you to
reject the nomination of Wendy Vitter for District Judge for the following
reasons:
·
She
promoted baseless junk science about abortion and birth control.
·
She
accused Planned Parenthood of killing 150,000 women a year.
·
She
supported HB 2, the notorious Texas law that triggered a wave of abortion
clinic shutdowns before it was declared unconstitutional by the United States
Supreme Court.
·
She
wouldn't say if she agreed with the Brown v. Board of Education decision, which
struck down racial segregation in public schools.
We urge you to
reject the nomination of Kenneth L. Marcus as Assistant Secretary for Civil
Rights, Department of Education.
Our reasons are many and too long to list
here. Please refer to the following very
detailed letter in opposition and its signatories on the The Leadership
Conference On Civil And Human Rights website.
We urge you to
oppose S.J.Res.59 - Authorization
for Use of Military Force of 2018 and S.J.Res.31 - Authorization for Use of
Military Force Against al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria. Please explain why there are two of these seemingly identical bills. It is most certain both would give President Trump
an even wider blank check for endless global war than he already has.
Respectfully,
on behalf of Northeast Florida Indivisible
David
Johnson, Orange Park, FL 32073
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