Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America:
Doug Jones just won a massive victory against Roy Moore and Donald Trump. But Republicans are trying to undermine the election result -- by refusing to seat Doug Jones in the Senate.
Mitch McConnell and Trump are trying to rush the horrible tax plan through Congress, in order to give rich people and big corporations a huge tax cut while raising everyone else's taxes. They only have 52 seats in the Senate. With Doug Jones' victory, Republicans are down to just 51.
So McConnell's plan is to refuse to seat Doug Jones until after the Senate approves the final version of the tax plan -- and news reports this morning say Republicans are ready to pass it.
Senate Democrats are fighting back. Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, and Kamala Harris have stepped up to demand that Doug Jones be seated immediately. If he's not, then they insist the Senate should not take any votes on legislation -- including the tax plan.
Will you stand with them? Sign the petition and tell the Senate: Seat Doug Jones immediately -- and refuse to take any votes until he is seated.
There's precedent for this. In 2010, when Republican Scott Brown won the special election for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat, Democrats held up Senate business until Brown was seated -- as Mitch McConnell demanded.
And as former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander pointed out, Congress has routinely seated election winners even before the election results have been certified.
Doug Jones has clearly won this election and his margin of victory is well beyond the threshold for an automatic recount. There's no reason to delay giving Doug Jones the Senate seat he just won.
But Mitch McConnell is planning to delay -- unless there is a national outcry. He knows that once Doug Jones officially becomes a Senator, he may not have the votes to pass the horrible tax plan.
The voters have spoken: it's time for Doug Jones to take his seat in the Senate and cast what could be a deciding vote against this destructive, reckless, greedy, tax plan. Will you help?
Sign DFA's petition and tell the Senate: Seat Doug Jones immediately -- and refuse to take any votes until he is seated.
Thank you for standing up to Mitch McConnell's scheming.
- Robert
Robert Cruickshank, Senior Campaign Manager
Democracy for America
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