• In April and May, Texas AMAC members sent 17,143 messages telling their state representatives to support election integrity and security legislation. The bill passed the Senate and had support in the House, but House Democrats walked out of the legislative session as it expired in a last-ditch effort to prevent a vote. • In April and May, Maine AMAC members sent over 324 messages to the state legislature in opposition to National Popular Vote legislation that would give away their electoral votes based on the national popular vote. AMAC members helped to defeat this measure which ultimately failed in the Maine House of Representatives when 20 Democrats joined Republicans in voting against it. • In April, South Carolina AMAC members engaged their state legislature with 509 messages in support of an Article V Convention of States initiative. • In May, AMAC member advocates sent nearly 25,000 emails each (over 222,000 in total) to the nine Republican members of the Senate Rules Committee directing them to share the disdain the membership has for the “For the People Act” with their Democrat colleagues. The bill failed in Committee but was brought to the floor of the Senate for a vote via a procedural move by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer where it was ultimately defeated. • In June, Texas AMAC members sent over 3,300 messages to Governor Greg Abbott asking him to call back the state legislature ASAP to convene a vote on election integrity that the Democrats previously walked out on. • In June, AMAC members left over 9,300 comments on a regulatory website telling the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to keep the requirement for hospitals to report their median, payer-specific negotiated charges for Medicare Advantage organizations. CMS issued a rule that would rescind this requirement and cloud this aspect of hospital price transparency. AMAC member comments accounted for approximately one-third of all comments left on the website. CMS was reviewing the comments as of year’s end. • In June, Pennsylvania AMAC members sent nearly 4,000 email messages to the state legislature telling them to pass H.B. 1300, the “Voting Rights Protection Act.” AMAC members were successful in getting the bill passed in the legislature, but it was vetoed by Governor Tom Wolf. • In June, West Virginia AMAC members continued their advocacy on behalf of preserving the filibuster in the US Senate by sending another 222 messages to Senator Joe Manchin telling him to persist in his support of this valuable tool that gives a voice to the minority party. Senator Manchin did not waver, and the filibuster endured and was used by Senate Republicans to defeat the “For the People Act.” • In June, Michigan AMAC members sent members of the state House of Representatives over 1,700 messages telling them to support voter ID bills for mail-in and in-person voting. The bills, which already passed the state Senate, were passed by the state House. • In June, Pennsylvania AMAC members pressured Governor Tom Wolf by sending him over 3,700 emails demanding that he sign the “Voting Rights Protection Act” just prior to his veto. While the veto was expected, AMAC members were able to speak their minds in support of election integrity. • In August, AMAC members sent the entire US Congress over 99,000 messages telling them not to support the Democrats’ wasteful $3.5 trillion budget resolution. House Democrats eventually shrank this budget bill to $1.75 trillion which they passed. As of year’s end, this bill is dead due to opposition from centrist Senate Democrats. • In August, a targeted campaign was sent to Senators Sinema, Tester and Manchin. AMAC members in Arizona, West Virginia, and Montana, collectively made over 1,000 contacts with these Senators to tell them to oppose the double death tax. Senator Sinema’s opposition to this proposal caused it to be removed from the “Build Back Better Act” before final House passage.
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