From C4L:<\/p>\n
On Friday, the majority of the Senate voted to proceed on Janet Yellen\u2019s confirmation to become the next Federal Reserve Chair.<\/p>\n
Harry Reid may have won round one in the battle to confirm Janet Yellen without holding a Senate vote on Audit the Fed (S. 209), but the war is far from over.<\/p>\n
And your action is making a major difference!<\/p>\n
In fact, while 59 Senators voted for cloture on Yellen, that is far fewer than the 77 who voted for cloture on President Obama’s renomination of \u201cHelicopter Ben\u201d Bernanke in 2009!<\/p>\n
The motion only passed because of Reid\u2019s continuing refusal to respect the rules of the Senate, which require 60 votes to limit debate on nominations.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s action sets up the final passage vote on Yellen\u2019s nomination. <\/p>\n
But if we can convince only 10 senators to change sides, we can block Yellen’s confirmation until Harry Reid finally allows the Senate to vote on Audit the Fed.<\/p>\n
And we have already thwarted Reid\u2019s plans to ram Yellen\u2019s nomination through the Senate before Christmas!<\/p>\n
Late Thursday night, and after C4L generated huge pressure on the Senate this week, Harry Reid decided to hold off on the final vote until January 6.<\/strong><\/p>\n This gives us almost three more weeks to mobilize Americans to take action in support of Audit the Fed.<\/p>\n Right now, senators are preparing to leave for the holidays. But over the Christmas break, they will be spending time on constituent meetings and public events.<\/p>\n This is a perfect opportunity for you to personally talk to them about Audit the Fed. You can find your senators\u2019 town hall and public events plans on their websites, and you can call their local offices to schedule face-to-face meetings with them.<\/p>\n You can learn more about which senators sided with the American people \u2013 and which sided with the Banksters, big spenders, and special interests \u2013 at CampaignForLiberty.org.<\/p>\n [Note: Just before noon on Friday, the Senate voted to cut off debate and proceed with the nomination of Janet Yellen to Chair the Federal Reserve by a vote of 59-34. NH Senator Jeanne SHAHEEN was among those who SIDED WITH THE BANKS and against the people.]<\/p>\n If your senators opposed Yellen, please either go to an event they\u2019re holding, call their offices, or schedule a meeting to tell them to keep it up until we get a vote on Audit the Fed!<\/p>\n But if they allied themselves with the Fed, take advantage of this opportunity to tell them you expect them to stand with the nearly 75% of Americans who support transparency and vote against Yellen’s confirmation until Harry Reid schedules a vote on Audit the Fed!<\/p>\n Forcing Harry Reid to delay the final vote until January 6 was a major victory. Now we must take advantage of this opportunity by turning up the heat on the Senate even further.<\/strong \n\nThat\u2019s why it\u2019s so important you contact your senators to reinforce the strong message we\u2019ve sent.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From C4L: On Friday, the majority of the Senate voted to proceed on Janet Yellen\u2019s confirmation to become the next Federal Reserve Chair. Harry Reid may have won round one in the battle to confirm Janet Yellen without holding a Senate vote on Audit the Fed (S. 209), but the war is far from over. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-legislation","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13629,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627\/revisions\/13629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}