THE HOUSE MUST OPEN AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY NOW
ACTION THREE: GO TO #INDIVISIBLETUESDAY
Join us at #IndivisibleTuesday today, Tuesday, May 7th at 11:30AM in the courtyard of Senator Wyden’s and Representative Blumenauer’s office: 911 E 11th Ave.
We will thank Representative Blumenauer for co-sponsoring H.Res.257 (Rep. Tlaib’s resolution for an impeachment inquiry) and encourage him to
- Ensure that this inquiry covers all Trump’s misconduct.
- Use his voice to convince colleagues of the need for an impeachment inquiry and that they should support H.Res.257 and to push House leadership to schedule a vote on the Tlaib resolution.
- Educate the public about impeachment’s role in Congressional oversight and explain why an impeachment inquiry is now absolutely necessary.
We will encourage Senator Wyden to:
- Use his voice to convince House colleagues of the need to immediately open an impeachment inquiry into all Trump’s misconduct.
- Talk to Senate colleagues of both parties about impeachment’s role in Congressional oversight and about all Senators’ duty to put country over party.
- Educate the public about impeachment’s role in Congressional oversight and explain why an impeachment inquiry is now absolutely necessary.
ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR SENATORS
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
It is time for the House to open an impeachment inquiry into all Trump’s misconduct. We cannot allow Congressional inaction to permanently damage its constitutional mandate to curb executive overreaching. The Senator must
- convince House colleagues of the need to immediately open an impeachment inquiry
- talk to Senate colleagues of both parties about impeachment’s role in Congressional oversight and about all Senators’ duty to put country over party
- educate the public about impeachment’s role in Congressional oversight and why an impeachment inquiry is now absolutely necessary.
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION THREE: CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS
Not sure who your U.S. Representative is? Find out here.
SAMPLE SCRIPTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
FOR BLUMENAUER: . I am calling to thank Rep. Blumenauer for taking the important step of signing onto the impeachment inquiry resolution (H.Res.257). Please ask him to do everything in his power to
- ensure that this inquiry covers all Trump’s misconduct
- convince his colleagues to sign on to H.Res.257
- explain to his constituents why an impeachment inquiry is absolutely necessary.
FOR BONAMICI, DEFAZIO, SCHRADER: It is time for the House to open an impeachment inquiry into all Trump’s misconduct. We cannot allow inaction to permanently damage Congress’ constitutional mandate to curb executive overreaching. I am asking Rep. [ ] to
- co-sponsor H.Res.257 – the resolution for an impeachment inquiry
- use her/his voice to convince House colleagues to do likewise
- explain to her/his constituents why an impeachment inquiry is absolutely necessary.
FOR WALDEN: We cannot allow inaction, in the face of Trump’s continued misconduct, to permanently damage Congress’ constitutional mandate to curb executive overreaching. It is time for all House members to put country over party. Please implore the Representative to support a resolution formally opening an impeachment inquiry. Thank you.”
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
BACKGROUND:
It’s been weeks since Congress received substantial evidence of Russia’s sweeping, systematic attack on the 2016 election—which Trump welcomed and encouraged—and of Trump’s obstruction of the subsequent investigation. Focusing only on Mueller’s report ignores Trump’s other massive abuses of power, stonewalling of congressional investigations, and failures of moral leadership—all of which portray a man who puts his interests above public’s, is unable or uninterested in morally leading the country, and repeatedly breaches his obligation to ensure the laws’ faithful execution and the Constitution’s preservation, protection and defense.
We cannot let Trump’s reckless disregard for Constitution, democracy and rule of law go unchallenged. House’s failure to open impeachment inquiry permits Trump to repeatedly falsely claim that, since Mueller found no collusion or obstruction, he cannot be impeached, and it’s causing lasting damage to Congress’ ability to curb executive overreaching.
Six House committees separately investigating aspects of Trump’s misbehavior is unwieldy and unfocused. An impeachment inquiry creates single, dramatically powerful committee to investigate everything—better focusing public attention, improving investigation’s efficiency, and making White House’s continued obstruction significantly more dangerous.
We must demand that our MoCs convince the House to open an impeachment inquiry immediately.
