{"id":11619,"date":"2020-10-20T12:35:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T16:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/?p=11619"},"modified":"2024-04-16T11:41:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T15:41:38","slug":"what-is-the-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/what-is-the-300\/","title":{"rendered":"What is The 300?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;The 300&#8221; is an elegant political action breakthrough strategy that makes YOU the Agenda Setter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11620 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The-300-Congress-on-the-waves-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The-300-Congress-on-the-waves-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The-300-Congress-on-the-waves-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The-300-Congress-on-the-waves-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The-300-Congress-on-the-waves-100x53.jpg 100w, https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The-300-Congress-on-the-waves.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Agenda Setters by Downsize DC<\/em> intends to pass good legislation in Congress. Most people assume that means electing new people to office.<\/p>\n<p>We have a simpler plan.<\/p>\n<p>We will recruit 300 people per congressional district to perform a modest yet powerful task.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 300&#8221; will visit local congressional offices seeking sponsorship for legislation you like.<\/p>\n<p>These visits will happen in waves of 3, 5, or 6 people. They&#8217;ll stream into your congressional office, week after week, until bill sponsorship is obtained.<\/p>\n<p>300 visitors will feel like a flood to the local congressional staff.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In many cases, sponsorship will occur before all 300 people flow into the office.<\/li>\n<li>We also don&#8217;t need sponsors in every district. Congressional leaders will likely bow to the rising tide of support before we reach a majority.<\/li>\n<li>If they don&#8217;t act, we can drown out the recalcitrant leadership using a tool called a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discharge_petition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">discharge petition<\/a>. We can do that once we have 220 House sponsors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We don&#8217;t want to waste your time. That&#8217;s why no local congressional office meetings will be scheduled in your district until we have all 300 Agenda Setters recruited. You won&#8217;t have to take action <a href=\"https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/you-can-set-the-agenda-for-all-of-america-with-this-simple-trick-called-option-activism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>until<\/em><\/a> you&#8217;re sure enough people are doing it with you to virtually guarantee success.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be able to schedule your meeting on a day that works for you.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to be a spokesperson or group coordinator? Great. Would you prefer to offer quiet moral support? That&#8217;s needed too. Each group will choose its spokespersons.<\/p>\n<p>Our agenda is tight and focused. <strong><em>We hope you&#8217;ll become one of The 300 for one or more of the following bills..<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/act\/end-judicial-findings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">End Judicial Findings<\/a> (S. 2566): Don&#8217;t let judges imprison people based on acquitted charges. Yes, that actually happens.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/act\/one-subject-at-a-time-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The One Subject at a Time Act<\/a> (H.R. 91 and S. 287): Don&#8217;t let congressional leaders cluster unrelated bills. Lobbyists use this tactic to sneak things through.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/act\/restore-federal-parole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Restore Federal Parole<\/a>: The &#8220;land of the free&#8221; has the world&#8217;s largest prison population, both in real terms and per capita. Congress ended federal parole in the 1980s. Help empty the American gulag.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/act\/qualified-immunity-end-it-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ending Qualified Immunity Act<\/a> (HR 7085): Because the Supreme Court wrongly decided that police cannot be held responsible for their actions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/act\/read-the-bills-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Read the Bills Act<\/a> (S. 3879): Make Congress read every word of every rule they impose on you.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/act\/read-the-bills-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Write the Laws Act<\/a> (S. 3904): Don&#8217;t let Congress delegate its rule-making power to unelected bureaucrats.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Take the plunge and, together, we can carry congressional legislation over the rushing waves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress under the waves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,64,150,151,152,153,42,154,138,155,156,35,157,95],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is The 300? - Downsize DC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What is The 300? 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