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Marching Band, Mobile Billboards, Ads, and Constituent Calls Are Greeting Senators Returning to DC This Week, from Moms Demanding Speedy Passage of Build Back Better Act

February 1, 2022
Workplace Justice, Paid Family & Medical Leave, Early Care & Education, Federal Budget

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Moms are standing up, speaking out, and demanding Build Back Better. A Marching Band will be outside the Russell Senate Office Building at the corner of Constitution Avenue and Delaware Street from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm today, and again on select days over the next two weeks with signs like the one below: 

 

 

Mobile billboards are circling Capitol Hill this week, carrying the message below: 

 

In addition to the marching band and mobile billboard, a full-page ad ran in the DC edition of the New York Times yesterday, featuring a letter in which 250 organizations and leaders joined MomsRising in telling U.S. Senators that “working families are at a breaking point,” and to “act with haste to pass Build Back Better. Now is the time to make these investments in both working families and our workforce.” And digital ads urging passage of the Build Back Better Act are running in West Virginia, Arizona, and D.C. in February.

Hundreds of local moms who are constituents are also calling U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) each day this week and next, to talk about their need for paid leave, affordable child care, home- and community-based services, and a continuation of the monthly expanded Child Tax Credit payments.

MomsRising Together has arranged all this activity in support of the Build Back Better Act, now stalled in the U.S. Senate. It would create a care infrastructure by reducing childcare and Pre-K costs, extending the expanded Child Tax Credit, addressing prescription drug pricing, providing access to paid family and medical leave, making home- and community-based services available to seniors and people with disabilities, providing protections so immigrants can fully participate in the workforce, and creating millions of good jobs for women.

“America’s moms know that enactment of Build Back Better is essential if moms, families, businesses and our economy are to thrive,” said Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and CEO of MomsRising Together, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families. “The need for this legislation, and the care infrastructure it will create, has become even more urgent as the pandemic continues. Moms are determined that the U.S. Senate join the House of Representatives in passing this bill, so President Biden can sign it into law and we can have a just, inclusive recovery from the pandemic and all families can prosper.” 

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To learn more or arrange an interview with a MomsRising Together leader, contact magen@momsrising.org or lisa@momsrising.org. 

Getty Images of the marching band and mobile billboard will be available this afternoon.

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.