• In August, the AMAC membership left over 16,400 comments in favor of hospital price transparency on a CMS website that was seeking public comments. CMS was reviewing the comments as of year’s end. • In August and November, AMAC Action sent thousands of AMAC members in California and Virginia to websites to sign up to become poll watchers and election workers. The November election for Virginia Governor had an unprecedented amount of scrutiny due to the significant increase of people working the polls. AMAC members also sold out a poll watcher/election worker training session in Virginia in advance of November’s gubernatorial election. • In September, 10 Democrats (Peters, CA-52; Auchincloss, MA-04; Schrader, OR-05; Rice, NY-04; Murphy, FL-07; Correa, CA-46; Strickland, WA-10; Mrvan, IN-01; Gottheimer, NJ-05; and Cardenas, CA-29) received over 773 messages from AMAC members in those respective districts compelling them not to include Nancy Pelosi’s price-fixing, innovation-stifling drug price bill in the budget reconciliation act. Representative Murphy publicly stated that she would not support the $3.7 trillion bill declaring it was “too big” after AMAC members in FL-07 sent her nearly 100 messages. • In September, AMAC’s Alaska members directed their concern over the federal takeover of elections to Senators Murkowski and Sullivan by sending them 570 messages. Senator Murkowski opposed a compromise at the time which would have federalized elections, but ultimately supported debate on the “John Lewis Voting Rights Act.” The vote before the Senate to open this debate ultimately failed. • In September, over 105,270 messages were sent by the AMAC membership to Congress to tell them to oppose Biden’s push for a capital gains tax hike, that would hurt millions of seniors’ retirement income, to be included the budget bill. This effort by AMAC members was successful, as the proposal was removed from the legislation. • In September and December, AMAC’s Pennsylvania members, who were very active throughout the year, sent over 4,850 messages to the state legislature urging lawmakers to pass comprehensive voter reform legislation. The latest measure, H.B. 1800, was scheduled for a vote in early 2022. • In September, AMAC members sent over 740 messages to Democrats in the Senate telling them not to further damage the economy with their political maneuvering regarding the debt limit. This initiative resulted in the Democrats being forced to take a politically risky vote on raising the debt limit using only Democratic votes. No Republicans voted in favor of increasing the debt limit. • In September, AMAC members in West Virginia, Arizona, Montana, and New Hampshire again reached out to Senators Manchin, Sinema, Tester, and Hassan with over 1,900 messages telling them to remain steadfast in their support for the filibuster. • In October, AMAC members in Pennsylvania took on a new issue, a directive by their Governor to join a regional greenhouse gas initiative that would drive up energy costs for state residents and businesses. AMAC members flooded the state Senate with over 3,350 messages telling legislators to oppose the Governor’s directive. The resolution to oppose this directive passed the Senate with 3 Democrats voting with the majority. • In November, AMAC’s members in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Arizona, and West Virginia sent over 1,680 messages to Senators Casey, Hassan, Sinema, and Manchin telling them to oppose the Democrats’ drug pricing bill. Senator Manchin ultimately put down the budget reconciliation bill and the Democrats’ drug pricing bill along with it. • In November, AMAC’s Idaho members sent nearly 200 messages inviting their state legislators to attend a meeting to discuss Idaho’s potential participation in an Article V Convention of States. This initiative resulted in high enthusiasm among potential state sponsors for the initiative.
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