On Wednesday, April 19, Indiana Senator Todd Young welcomed [1] Defense Secretary Mattis' call [2] for a political solution to the conflict in Yemen without delay. Sen. Young called on Saudi Arabia to: - refrain from bombing the port of Hodeida, through which a majority of food, fuel, and medical supplies enters Yemen - a military attack that closed the port would likely result in a famine within a few months; - reform its inspection regime at Hodeida to eliminate unacceptable delays in the delivery of severely needed humanitarian supplies; - facilitate the delivery of U.S.-funded World Food Program cranes to the port of Hodeida that would dramatically increase the port’s humanitarian aid capacity. [3] Urge Members of Congress to join Senator Young's call on Saudi Arabia not to attack Hodeida by signing our petition. References: 1. https://twitter.com/SenToddYoung/status/854807390184669184 2. https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript-View/Article/1154616/media-availability-with-secretary-mattis-en-route-to-the-kingdom-of-saudi-arabia/ 3. https://www.young.senate.gov/content/following-mattis-visit-young-calls-saudi-government-help-alleviate-humanitarian-crisis-yemen

We're tired of our Members of Congress not being accountable to the people.

H.R. 620 and similar ADA notification bills are gaining more steam in Congress than ever before. As a person with a disability and one who advocates for the rights of others with disabilities, I see businesses conveniently ignoring their legal obligations to undertake readily achievable barrier removal at facilities existing before passage of the 1990 ADA. This bill and others similar will force a person with a disability to write a complaint letter to the business with detailed analyses of the issues, which section of the code is violated and the correct citations, wait 30 days for a response and give a business 60 days to correct an issue before a suit can be filed. A person with a disability can also be countersued for enforcing their civil rights if they don't follow the prescribed protocols. Businesses and public accommodations have had 27 years to come in to compliance with federal law. The ADA has provided for free public education and technical assistance through the U.S. Dept of Justice Office of Civil Rights and 10 federally funded regional ADA centers since its passage. There is nothing in the proposed legislation that recognizes what is currently available to help businesses. Nor is more funding being allocated for such outreach to be improved upon. As such, the "Education" part of this bill's title is totally bogus. Please counter the business lobby, which wants to make it much more difficult to attain accessibility when businesses such as stores, restaurants, hotels, etc. disregard their ADA responsibilities. Highlights of H.R. 620: Removes any incentive for voluntary compliance. Requires a person with a disability who encounters an access barrier to send a letter detailing the exact ADA provisions that are being violated. Rewards non-compliance by allowing businesses generous additional timelines, even though the ADA's reasonable requirements are already over 25 years old! Perpetuates the myth that the ADA benefits unscrupulous lawyers rather than the truth: that the ADA is the most important civil rights law for people with disabilities. Ignores the extensive, free educational resources already available today to any business on how to comply with the law. Tell your Congressional Representative to OPPOSE H.R. 620, and any other bill to weaken the ADA! Express the concerns listed above. See the Additional Resources for more information. Congress Members are on recess this week, but many of their staff are still in D.C. to get your messages. Let's all contact them this week, so when the Members return, their staff will tell them they've heard from hundreds of people! Also, the House Judiciary Committee could consider this bill as soon as the last week of April. If it passes, it may go very quickly to the full House for a vote—so the entire House needs to hear from us, starting immediately and for the next few weeks! What to do: Go to contactingcongress.org and insert your zip code to find many simple methods for contacting your House representative: via e-mail, phone, Facebook, Twitter, fax, etc. Call your House of Representatives Member using the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. They will help you find your Representative's name if you don't know it, and switch you to your Representative's office. If you know your Representative's name, here is the House of Representatives phone list. Extra urgent, if your Representative is on the Judiciary Committee: If your Congressional representative, or any Representative from your state, serves on the House Judiciary Committee, it is especially important to contact them ASAP, because this Committee will vote on the bill first. See a full list of Committee members. Town Halls this week: Members of Congress are in their home districts this week. Many will be at Town Halls or other public events where you can ask them to oppose H.R. 620, and say why. To find local events, try townhallproject.com. Or, check your Representative's website or call their local district office; see contactingcongress.org. Additional Resources: Overview of concerns with H.R. 620 H.R. 620 website with summary, bill text, etc. Save the ADA web page, National Disability Rights Network Additional questions? E-mail [email protected]

We want a face to face interactive town hall meeting with our representative in Congress.He thinks he can ignore us because he has a safe seat. But we are his constituents and it's his duty to represent us!

President Trump issues his budget proposal earlier this year. The budget would be devastating to countless governmental programs and communities, including here in the Central Valley. The proposals would get funding for clean air and water and public television, eliminate programs like Meals on Wheels and the National Endowment for the Arts. We deserve a budget that represents us not just the rich. We need Rep. Denham to oppose the Trump budget now.

The Republican health care bill that House Republicans and President Trump pushed earlier this year was dangerous for people, but now Republicans are talking about making it even worse. Instead of working together to make a better health care system and building upon the Affordable Care Act, they’re giving into demands of the extreme right to give insurance companies more power, and making health care costs even higher for working people.

The President is the emploee of the people and he/she should be responsive to our concerns. By removing the White House phone line Trump has told us he is a dictator and does not care what his subjects think.

I've started this petition to urge Senator Johnson to be accountable to the people who have elected him. He has not held a public meeting to hear from his constituents since Trump was elected to office. In fact, he appears to be avoiding meetings with us. It's time to insist that he be available to us and to meet to discuss our concerns in person.

On February 17, Juan Manuel Montes was walking to a taxi stand in his hometown in California when he was approached by border officials and asked for his papers. Though Juan was legally authorized to live and work in America through the DACA program, he was deported to Mexico just hours later. This is a direct consequence to Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda and the acts of an unaccountable agency. Juan Manuel must be reunited with his family in California as soon as possible. Join us in demanding Secretary Kelly take immediate action.

This petition is in support of refugee resettlement in Northwest Arkansas.

In order for the Democratic Party to win the 2018 midterms and the general election in 2020, we must eradicate all Sanders influence on the DNC! Perez and Ellison must resign immediately so we can have REAL Democrats running the DNC

The Safe Cities Coalition has spent the past two years working toward passing sensible gun laws in San Jose, to minimize accidental deaths and suicides that occur because of access to guns.