Notes

Actions for Monday (phone calls recommended here due to time-sensitivity):

No Confirmation Hearings for Trump Cabinet Picks Before Filing a Complete Form 278 and Signing an Ethics Letter

For the following --

• Charles Schumer (D-NY) [Senate Minority Leader]
(202) 224-6542
322 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

• Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
(202) 224-3244
302 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

• Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
(202) 224-4543
317 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

-- Thank them for taking a stand on this and urge them to use every parliamentary tool at their disposal to prevent confirmation hearings from taking place before Trump cabinet nominees have completed their form 278 and signed an Ethics Letter…and to use their platform to make it clear that this president elect does not get an exception from the ethics rules and laws that have governed presidential cabinets for 40 years.

• Mitch McConnell (R-KY) [Senate Majority Leader]
(202) 224-2541
317 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Tell him that no one should be granted an exception to ethics laws that presidential appointees have abided by for 40 years. No hearings until they’ve completed their form 278 and signed an Ethics Letter.

• Lamar Alexander (R-TN) [Chair, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee]
(202) 224-4944
455 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

• Patty Murray (D-WA) [Ranking Member, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee]
(202) 224-2621
154 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Urge this committee’s chair and ranking member to not hold hearings (Betsy DeVos, Education) until nominees have completed their form 278 and signed an Ethics Letter. No one should be granted an exception to ethics laws that presidential appointees have abided by for 40 years, least of all the appointees of a president who has shown no regard for norms of disclosure or avoiding conflicts of interest in the executive.

• Ron Johnson (R-WI) [Chair, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee]
(202) 224-5323
328 Hart Senate Office Building
�Washington, DC 20510�
• Claire McCaskill (D-MO) [Ranking Member, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee]
(202) 224-6154
730 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Urge this committee’s chair and ranking member to not hold hearings (John Kelly, Homeland Security) until nominees have completed their form 278 and signed an Ethics Letter. No one should be granted an exception to ethics laws that presidential appointees have abided by for 40 years, least of all the appointees of a president who has shown no regard for norms of disclosure or avoiding conflicts of interest in the executive.

• Mike Crapo (R-ID) [Chair, Banking, Housing, Urban Affairs Committee]
(202) 224-6142
239 Dirksen Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510

• Sherrod Brown (D-OH) [Ranking Member, Banking, Housing, Urban Affairs Committee]
(202) 224-2315
713 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510

Urge this committee’s chair and ranking member to not hold hearings (Ben Carson, Housing) until nominees have completed their form 278 and signed an Ethics Letter. No one should be granted an exception to ethics laws that presidential appointees have abided by for 40 years, least of all the appointees of a president who has shown no regard for norms of disclosure or avoiding conflicts of interest in the executive.

• John Thune (R-SD) [Chair, Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee]
(202) 224-2321
United States Senate SD-511
Washington, DC 20510

• Bill Nelson (D-FL) [Ranking Member, Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee]
(202) 224-5274
United States Senate
716 Senate Hart Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Urge this committee’s chair and ranking member to not hold hearings (Wilbur Ross, Commerce) until nominees have completed their form 278 and signed an Ethics Letter. No one should be granted an exception to ethics laws that presidential appointees have abided by for 40 years, least of all the appointees of a president who has shown no regard for norms of disclosure or avoiding conflicts of interest in the executive.

Credit to James Denning & Miwa Messer, via Rob McQuilkin.