Freedom First Society

November 12, 2020 Legislative Alert: Oppose FY 2021 Omnibus or Another CR

Please “email” or call (i.e., leave message) your representative and senators in opposition to an Omnibus FY2021 appropriations bill or another Continuing Resolution (CR).

Now’s the time to insist on Regular Order – votes on 12 individual appropriations measures.

Background

In late September, an irresponsible Congress kicked the appropriations can down the road by passing a Continuing Resolution (H.R. 8337).  (See our website scorecard analysis of the 9-22-20 House vote — Roll Call 198.)  The Continuing Resolution extended FY 2020 appropriations until December 11.  So, after the November national elections, responsibility now falls on a lame-duck Congress to tackle FY 2021 appropriations.

During the sham debate over H.R. 8337, Rep. Steny Hoyer, the Democratic House Majority Leader, described the challenge Congress would face in passing appropriations bills in December:

We will probably do it in an omnibus, not single appropriations bills, which is not a good way to do it either.

What an admission!  Then why do it that way?  There are clearly corrupt pressures at work in the absence of sufficient pressure from an informed and aroused public.

After the election, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell both indicated they favored finishing up FY2021 appropriations with an omnibus.

But omnibus bills hide the bad among the necessary.  Instead, if voted on in smaller chunks (regular order), Congress might just be reluctant to accept some of those bad appropriations.  For the preservation of our free nation, out-of-control government has got to stop sometime, and the sooner the better.

And now Congress will be voting to continue and even increase irresponsible federal spending for the balance of FY 2021.

Requested Action

If left alone, Congress will continue its destructive path of building and nourishing the federal monster while ravishing the private sector.

We urge every member to contact their representative and senators to insist they vote no on any omnibus appropriations bill.  

So, please “email” or call (leave message) your representative and senators:

Suggested Talking Points

Instruction:  Your constituents need you to stand tall and vote no on an omnibus FY2021 appropriations bill or another blanket continuing resolution.

Reasons:  Here are several reasons you can give (just pick a couple, preferably in your own words):

  1. Responsible congressmen, who respect their oath to support and defend the Constitution, must halt unconstitutional and excessive spending.  Omnibus appropriations bills hide and thereby encourage such spending.
  2. Fiscal year 2020 appropriations included massive unconstitutional programs and spending.  No congressman, respecting his oath to support the Constitution, should vote to extend such spending.
  3. For years, Congressional leaders have advocated returning to regular order.  Now is the time to insist that they do. 
  4. Congress has the time, even during the lame duck session, to vote on 12 individual appropriations bills (regular order).  That’s step 1 for bringing federal spending under control. 
  5. Our mushrooming national debt is out of control and will have serious consequences.  Omnibus appropriations continue “business as usual,” with irresponsible deficit spending.  
  6. Congress has no legitimate authority to have the Federal Reserve create more fiat money out of thin air to finance deficits.  Omnibus appropriations measures make it easier for many congressmen to continue business as usual.
  7. Omnibus appropriations measures continue excessive federal spending.  Excessive federal spending is a huge tax burden on the private sector.   Much of America’s manufacturing has shifted to foreign countries, in part, to escape that burden.

Contact Information

This page on Freedom First Society’s website will help you identify your representative and senators.

Our website’s “Index to Current Legislators” provides telephone contact information (for leaving a message) and links to help you “email” a legislator.  For senators, the link takes you directly to their “email” page.  For a representative, the link takes you to the representative’s “home” webpage (from there you must navigate to the “email” contact option).

Clicking on the legislator’s name takes you to the legislator’s individual Freedom First Society scorecard, where you’ll find also the legislator’s DC mailing address (use only if time allows).

April 2019 FFS Action Report

April 2019 Freedom First Society Action Report

Dear Member,

Here is a link to our April 2019 Action Report.

For your convenience, here is also a link to last month’s Report: March 2019 Action Report.  We encourage all members to share these alerts with interested personal contacts, while adding their own comments.

If for any reason you wish to be removed from Freedom First Society’s email network, just reply to this message and place REMOVE in the subject line. Your name will be removed immediately.

Convenient Links to Discussed Resources

Also, for your convenience, we are including here some links to items mentioned in this and recent Reports:

Topic:  Wolves AND Sheep’s Clothing

Topic: Deceptions Abound

Topic: Grow to Win!

Topic: Congress: Just Vote the Constitution!

Topic: Save Our Constitution!

Topic: National Popular Vote

March 2019 FFS Action Report

March 2019 Freedom First Society Action Report

Dear Member,

Here is a link to our March 2019 Action Report.

For your convenience, here is also a link to last month’s Report: February 2019 Action Report.  We encourage all members to share these alerts with interested personal contacts, while adding their own comments.

If for any reason you wish to be removed from Freedom First Society’s email network, just reply to this message and place REMOVE in the subject line. Your name will be removed immediately.

Convenient Links to Discussed Resources

Also, for your convenience, we are including here some links to items mentioned in this and recent Reports:

Topic: “The Great American Swindle” (2007) — Today

Topic:  Q Revisited

Topic: Grow to Win!

Topic: Congress: Just Vote the Constitution!

Topic: Save Our Constitution!

February 2019 FFS Action Report

February 2019 Freedom First Society Action Report

Dear Member,

Here is a link to our February 2019 Action Report.

For your convenience, here is also a link to last month’s Report: January 2019 Action Report.  We encourage all members to share these alerts with interested personal contacts, while adding their own comments.

If for any reason you wish to be removed from Freedom First Society’s email network, just reply to this message and place REMOVE in the subject line. Your name will be removed immediately.

Convenient Links to Discussed Resources

Also, for your convenience, we are including here some links to items mentioned in this and recent Reports:

Topic: Effective Action

Topic: Grow to Win!

Topic: Congress: Just Vote the Constitution!

Topic: Save Our Constitution!

January 2019 FFS Action Report

January 2019 Freedom First Society Action Report

Dear Member,

Here is a link to our January 2019 Action Report.

For your convenience, here is also a link to last month’s Report: December 2018 Action Report.  We encourage all members to share these alerts with interested personal contacts, while adding their own comments.

If for any reason you wish to be removed from Freedom First Society’s email network, just reply to this message and place REMOVE in the subject line. Your name will be removed immediately.

Convenient Links to Discussed Resources

Also, for your convenience, we are including here some links to items mentioned in this and recent Reports:

Topic: Illusions of Hope

Topic: Revolutionaries Embrace Climate-Change Hysteria

Topic: Grow to Win

Topic: Congress: Just Vote the Constitution!

Topic: Save Our Constitution!

December 2018 FFS Action Report

December 2018 Freedom First Society Action Report

Dear Member,

Here is a link to our December 2018 Action Report.

For your convenience, here is also a link to last month’s Report: November 2018 Action Report.  We encourage all members to share these alerts with interested personal contacts, while adding their own comments.

If for any reason you wish to be removed from Freedom First Society’s email network, just reply to this message and place REMOVE in the subject line. Your name will be removed immediately.

Convenient Links to Discussed Resources

Also, for your convenience, we are including here some links to items mentioned in this and recent Reports:

Topic: Trump or Kissinger — Who’s In Charge?

Topic: The “New NAFTA” Power Grab

Topic: More Media Collusion

Topic: Congress: Just Vote the Constitution!

Topic: Save Our Constitution!

November 2018 FFS Action Report

November 2018 Freedom First Society Action Report

Dear Member,

Here is a link to our November 2018 Action Report.

For your convenience, here is also a link to last month’s Report: October 2018 Action Report.  We encourage all members to share these alerts with interested personal contacts, while adding their own comments.

If for any reason you wish to be removed from Freedom First Society’s email network, just reply to this message and place REMOVE in the subject line. Your name will be removed immediately.

Convenient Links to Discussed Resources

Also, for your convenience, we are including here some links to items mentioned in this and recent Reports:

Topic: The “New NAFTA” Power Grab

Topic:  Grow to Win! (Posts to Share)

Topic: Congress: Just Vote the Constitution!

Topic: Save Our Constitution!

October 2018 FFS Action Report

October 2018 Freedom First Society Action Report

Dear Member,

Here is a link to our October 2018 Action Report.

For your convenience, here is also a link to last month’s Report: September 2018 Action Report  We encourage all members to share these alerts with interested personal contacts, while adding their own comments.

If for any reason you wish to be removed from Freedom First Society’s email network, just reply to this message and place REMOVE in the subject line. Your name will be removed immediately.

Convenient Links to Discussed Resources

Also, for your convenience, we are including here some links to items mentioned in this and recent Reports:

Topic: The “Deep State” Deception

Topic: The China Threat

Topic:  Grow to Win! (Posts to Share)

Topic: Congress: Just Vote the Constitution!

Topic: Save Our Constitution!

September 2018 FFS Action Report

September 2018 Freedom First Society Action Report

Dear Member,

Here is a link to our September 2018 Action Report.

For your convenience, here is also a link to last month’s Report: August 2018 Action Report  We encourage all members to share these alerts with interested personal contacts, while adding their own comments.

If for any reason you wish to be removed from Freedom First Society’s email network, just reply to this message and place REMOVE in the subject line. Your name will be removed immediately.

Convenient Links to Discussed Resources

Also, for your convenience, we are including here some links to items mentioned in this and recent Reports:

Topic: Slavery Swindle 

Topic:  Grow to Win! (Posts to Share)

Topic: Congress: Just Vote the Constitution!

Topic: Save Our Constitution!

August 2018 FFS Action Report

August 2018 Freedom First Society Action Report

Dear Member,

Here is a link to our August 2018 Action Report.   For your convenience, here is also a link to last month’s Report: July 2018 Action Report 

And we are including here some links to items mentioned in this and recent Reports.

Topic: Congress and the “Opioid ” Crisis

Topic: Propaganda Assault — Ignore the Constitution

Topic: It’s Really All About Clout!

Topic:  Grow to Win! (Posts to Share)

Topic: Save Our Constitution! 

Topic: Congress: Just Vote the Constitution!

We encourage all members to share these alerts with interested personal contacts, while adding their own comments.

If for any reason you wish to be removed from Freedom First Society’s email network, just reply to this message and place REMOVE in the subject line. Your name will be removed immediately.

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