NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE for NETWORK

Consumer Issues/Safety/Products CSP

NETWORK strongly supports the Every Child Deserves a Home bill (which will be introduced shortly) and urges passage this Congress to protect the civil rights of all LGBTQ indviduals. NETWORK strongly supports passage of the Pregnancy Assistance Fund to support pregnant teens who need assistance during pregnancy to protect maternal and infant health. NETWORK strongly supports paid family leave and paid sick leave to ensure that parents and care gives have the support they need to be successful at work and at home.

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); Justice, Dept of (DOJ); Treasury, Dept of; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); White House Office; Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); SENATE

Immigration IMM

NETWORK strongly supports the American Dream and Promise Act and urges immediate passage. NETWORK strongly supports the Farmworker Modernization Act and urges immediate passage. NETWORK strongly supports the No Ban Act and urges passage. NETWORK strongly supports S. 747, Citizenship for Essential Workers Act, and urges immediate passage. NETWORK strongly supports increasing the number of refugees to the United States in 2021 to 75,000.

Contacted: Treasury, Dept of; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; White House Office; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Labor, Dept of (DOL); SENATE; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); Justice, Dept of (DOJ); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Bills named: S. 747 (117th)

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR

NETWORK strongly support the Raise the Wage Act and urges immediate passage. NETWORK strongly supports the Healthy Families Act and Paid Leave Act. NETWORK strongly supports the Equal Pay Act. NETWORK strongly supported expansion of Unemployment Benefits in the America Rescue Plan. NETWORK seeks the Biden Administrations proposals in the American Jobs plan to create significant number of good paying jobs to ensure an equitable recovery.

Contacted: SENATE; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Justice, Dept of (DOJ); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); White House Office; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Treasury, Dept of; Labor, Dept of (DOL); Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)

Welfare WEL

NETWORK strongly supported expansions of SNAP and WIC in the American Rescue Plan. NETWORK strongly supported cash assistance to individuals, including immigrant children and their families, in the American Rescue Plan. NETWORK strongly supported extensions of pandemic unemployment assistance programs in the American Rescue Plan. NETWORK supports the Biden Administration's American Family Plan call for expansion of supports for the unemployed and care workers.

Contacted: Treasury, Dept of; Justice, Dept of (DOJ); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); White House Office; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Labor, Dept of (DOL)

Civil Rights/Civil Liberties CIV

NETWORK strongly supports H.R. 1/S. 1 and is working to pass this bill. NETWORK strongly supports H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and urges passage. NETWORK strongly supports Every Child Deserves a Home (bill introduction shortly) protecting the rights of LGBTQ individuals and families to adopt foster children and to protect LGBTQ children in foster care. NETWORK strongly supports the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and urges passage in the 117th Congress.

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); SENATE; Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Justice, Dept of (DOJ); White House Office; Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Treasury, Dept of

Bills named: H.R. 4 (117th), H.R. 1 (117th), S. 1 (117th)

Housing HOU

NETWORK strongly supports Executive Action on eviction moratorium during the COVID pandemic. NETWORK strongly supported Rental Assistance and increased vouchers in the American Rescue Pan. NETWORK belies everyone is entitled to housing. We strongly support the Biden Administrations proposal to expand affordable housing units and seek universal vouchers in the upcoming recovery bill. NETWORK strongly supports expanding access to broadband for all.

Contacted: Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Justice, Dept of (DOJ); Treasury, Dept of; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); SENATE; Labor, Dept of (DOL); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); White House Office

Budget/Appropriations BUD

NETWORK strongly supported Budget Reconciliation process for FY 2021 to support the American Rescue Plan. NETWORK supports efforts to increase spending for human needs programs in the FY 2022 process in the areas of refundable tax credits, healthcare expansion, paid leave, housing and broadband infrastructure, and food program expansion. NETWORK supports decreasing spending on immigration enforcement and detention and defense spending including ending the 1033 program.

Contacted: U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); SENATE; Justice, Dept of (DOJ); White House Office; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Treasury, Dept of; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

NETWORK strongly supported expansions of the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit in the American Rescue bill. NETWORK urges Congress to support permanent extensions of these credits in the upcoming recovery bill. NETWORK strongly supports closing tax loopholes so that corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes. This includes seeking repeal of many tax provisions passed in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that benefits the rich and well-connected. NETWORK supports passage of a bill to ensure tax preparers are required to pass a competency test before providing services, particularly related to understanding complexity around the refundable credits. NETWORK supports efforts at the IRS to create a simple free file/no file system/s to allow low income individuals access to refundable credits.

Contacted: Treasury, Dept of; Labor, Dept of (DOL); Justice, Dept of (DOJ); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; White House Office; Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); SENATE; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)

Homeland Security HOM

NETWORK strongly supports decreased funding for the Department of Homeland Security related to immigration enforcement and the creation of a border wall. NETWORK strongly urges the Biden Administration to end Trump Administration regulations related to restricting people from seeking asylum in the United States. NETWORK strongly supports the Biden Administration's Executive Order ending Trump Era Public Charge regulations. NETWORK strongly supports the Biden Administration's Executive Order ending the Muslim ban.

Contacted: Justice, Dept of (DOJ); SENATE; White House Office; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Treasury, Dept of; Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

NETWORK believes all people living in the United States, including immigrants, should have access to healthcare. NETWORK supports Medicare for All. NETWORK urges all states to expand Medicaid. NETWORK worked hard to advocate for the healthcare expansion provisions included in the American Rescue plan. NETWORK supports the HEAL Act so that immigrants have full access to healthcare. NETWORK supports H.R. 3 and believes Medicare should have the ability to negotiate drug prices with the pharmaceutical industry.

Contacted: Justice, Dept of (DOJ); White House Office; Labor, Dept of (DOL); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); SENATE; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Treasury, Dept of; Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)

Bills named: H.R. 3 (117th)

Family issues/Abortion/Adoption FAM

NETWORK strongly supports the Every Child Deserves a Home bill (to be introduced shortly) to eliminate discrimination against LGBTQ adoptive parents and children in the foster care system. NETWORK strongly supports the Healthy Families Act and Paid Leave Act to ensure workers have the ability to thrive at work and at home. NETWORK strongly supports the Pregnancy Assistance Fund to provide critical supports to pregnant teens to promote maternal and infant health.

Contacted: Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Treasury, Dept of; White House Office; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Justice, Dept of (DOJ)

Trade (domestic/foreign) TRD

NETWORK strongly urges USTR to pursue a waiver to the TRIPs Agreement for COVID Vaccines to enable mass production of COVID Vaccines. NETWORK strongly urges USTR to enforce new labor and environmental standards in the USMCA to ensure all countries are meeting obligations. NETWORK strongly supports USTR efforts to review all trade policy from a worker centered perspective and to promote strongly labor and environmental standards.

Contacted: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Treasury, Dept of; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); White House Office; Justice, Dept of (DOJ); SENATE; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Labor, Dept of (DOL); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Health Issues HCR

NETWORK strongly supportive the expansions of health premium tax credits, Medicaid coverage for maternal health, Medicaid coverage for returning citizens, expansion of Medicaid financing for non-Medicaid expansion states in the American Rescue Plan. NETWORK strongly supports HR 3 and urges Congress to pass bill this year. NETWORK strongly supports healthcare for all and believes healthcare is a right, not a privilege. NETWORK strongly supports Medicare for All.

Contacted: Justice, Dept of (DOJ); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; White House Office; Treasury, Dept of

Bills named: H.R. 3 (117th)

Foreign Relations FOR

NETWORK supported international funding for the World Health Organization and COVAX to meet the challenges of the global pandemic in the American Rescue Plan.

Contacted: Justice, Dept of (DOJ); Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Treasury, Dept of; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); SENATE; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Labor, Dept of (DOL); White House Office; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice LAW

NETWORK strongly supports the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act and urges Congress pass it immediately. NETWORK strongly supports efforts to discrimination in sentencing particularly related to drug convictions. We strongly support the Equal Act, which would end sentencing disparities between crack and cocaine convictions. NETWORK strongly urges the Biden Administration to end the federal death penalty. NETWORK strongly supports ensuring returning citizens have timely access to critical benefit programs such as healthcare, housing and food as well as immediate rights to participate in elections. NETWORK urges Congress to end the 1033 program which has lead to increased militarization of our communities and at the border.

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); SENATE; Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Treasury, Dept of; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Labor, Dept of (DOL); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Justice, Dept of (DOJ); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); White House Office; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)