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Senate Cloture Vote on adopting H.R. 2347 as amended (BAAJA). The Senate is expected to vote on cloture immediately after the vote to adopt S. Amdt 6883, as amended, which should take place no earlier than 12:30 am Wednesday, barring exceptional circumstances. This vote is the final of the three 60-vote-threshold votes required for passage.

If BAAJA passes this threshold, Democrats no longer have the votes as a party to stop BAAJA from its final passage in either the Senate or the House.

(The first cloture vote on bringing the legislation to the floor succeeded 73-25, and the motion to proceed succeeded 62-21. The second cloture vote is scheduled for Monday afternoon.)

11/18/2026 at 01:00AM

Join us on Capitol Hill to rally for a national data center moratorium!

Data centers have become a national crisis, threatening our air, water, democracy, and pocketbooks. That’s why we need national action from members of Congress all across the country.

Join us for a rally with Rep. Jim McGovern and other members of Congress, and to deliver thousands of petitions demanding a national data center moratorium.

If you’re traveling from outside the city, please identify if you have a car and are willing to lead a carpool! Please also indicate if you can stay after the rally to deliver petitions and letters to members of Congress.

This event is sponsored by the Stop Data Centers Coalition: Indiana Citizens Action Coalition, North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, Pennsylvania Physicians for Social Responsibility, Food & Water Watch, GreenLatinos, Media Justice, Our Revolution, Progressive Democrats of America, and Third Act.

Location
House Triangle
New Jersey Avenue Southeast & Southeast Drive

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11/17/2026 at 02:00PM

Leadership in Congress should reflect the mandate communicated by American voters in the midterm elections. We deserve leaders who will fight for all of the things that Senator Schumer has made it clear that he will not pursue. Senator Chris Van Hollen, a human rights advocate who is committed to ending funding for the Iran War, stopping the dirty data-center deal BAAJA, and advancing progressive policies, has entered the race for Senate Majority Leader.

This coming week, Monday, November 16th through Thursday, November 19th, we will meet in the shadow of the Capitol at FLARE USA to gather and walk into Congressional offices. FLARE has led thousands of people into the halls of Congress to lobby their members of Congress. We will go in groups to Senate offices to lobby for leadership that is willing to fight for the American people.

Meet at 10:00am at FLARE USA (George Gordon Meade Memorial / 333 Constitution Avenue NW) Monday through Thursday next week. After brief instructions and sorting into groups, we will walk for about 10-15 minutes to the Senate office buildings. Our site and the walk to the buildings is accessible.

Feel free to sign up OR just show up.

FLARE (For Liberation and Resistance Everywhere) has maintained a 24/7 presence in protest in Washington, D.C. since May of 2025. Whether it’s noon on a Monday or 3am on a Thursday, FLARE stands vigilant as a citizens’ lobbying arm pushing Congress toward the only constitutional solution to this madness: impeachment and removal.

11/17/2026 at 10:00AM

Senate Cloture Vote on replacing the legislative vehicle H.R. 2347 with the text of the managers’ amendment for BAAJA, S. Amdt. 6883. The Senate is scheduled to hold the vote following an executive-session vote at 5:30 pm. Second of the three 60-vote-threshold votes required for passage.

The third and final cloture vote is expected to occur about 30 hours later, early Wednesday morning.

(The first cloture vote on bringing the legislation to the floor succeeded 73-25, and the motion to proceed succeeded 62-21.)

11/16/2026 at 05:45PM

Leadership in Congress should reflect the mandate communicated by American voters in the midterm elections. We deserve leaders who will fight for all of the things that Senator Schumer has made it clear that he will not pursue. Senator Chris Van Hollen, a human rights advocate who is committed to ending funding for the Iran War, stopping the dirty data-center deal BAAJA, and advancing progressive policies, has entered the race for Senate Majority Leader.

This coming week, Monday, November 16th through Thursday, November 19th, we will meet in the shadow of the Capitol at FLARE USA to gather and walk into Congressional offices. FLARE has led thousands of people into the halls of Congress to lobby their members of Congress. We will go in groups to Senate offices to lobby for leadership that is willing to fight for the American people.

Meet at 10:00am at FLARE USA (George Gordon Meade Memorial / 333 Constitution Avenue NW) Monday through Thursday next week. After brief instructions and sorting into groups, we will walk for about 10-15 minutes to the Senate office buildings. Our site and the walk to the buildings is accessible.

Feel free to sign up OR just show up.

FLARE (For Liberation and Resistance Everywhere) has maintained a 24/7 presence in protest in Washington, D.C. since May of 2025. Whether it’s noon on a Monday or 3am on a Thursday, FLARE stands vigilant as a citizens’ lobbying arm pushing Congress toward the only constitutional solution to this madness: impeachment and removal.

11/16/2026 at 10:00AM

Join us to build support on Capitol Hill to protect East Potomac Park and Hains Point.

The Office of Senator Ankit Jain, WABA, and Save East Po, in conjunction with several other organizations, are organizing a Capitol Hill lobbying day on Thursday, November 12th to oppose any additional funding to the National Park Service which could assist the Trump Administration’s harmful actions impacting East Potomac Park. Sign up if you are interested in joining*—there will meeting shifts available in both the morning and afternoon, or join us for the full day!

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11/12/2026 at 09:00AM

Join us when UUSJ hosts a briefing on S. 5653, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) of 2026 in collaboration with friends from the People vs Fossil Fuels coalition and the UU Climate Justice Coalition.

This level set briefing will summarize the impacts of the bill, its deregulatory features, and give guidance on how best to engage Congress during the Lame Duck. A vote in the Senate is expected on Monday, November 9.

UUSJ Opposes BAAJA. We find the tradeoff being proffered too steep a price, and we love our neighbors too much to remain silent or inactive. See the UU Joint Statement, on this matter for our position.

Speakers will include:

• Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, Executive Director, Western Environmental Law Center
• Ariana Kretz, Policy Coordinator, Climate Justice Alliance
• Members of the UU Climate Justice Coalition

UUSJ is a member of both the UU Climate Justice Coalition and the People vs Fossil Fuels coalition.

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11/11/2026 at 08:00PM

Not Our Farm is looking forward to hosting a conversation about resisting the expansion of data centers from a food sovereignty and food systems perspective. We will hear from organizers and farmers organizing against the construction of data centers in their respective communities.

Data center construction has enormously expanded in scale and number over the past few years, and is closely tied to the fossil fuel industry, military and defense industries, and cryptocurrency mining. Data centers are primarily being built on or in proximity to Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities, rural and agricultural communities, and affordable housing.*

Through presentations from and conversation with our featured speakers, we will draw out the connections between the expansion of data centers, mineral extraction, land and water defense, farming, and food systems.

Speakers:

• Esperanza Chairez
• Selah Goodson Bell (No Landover Data Center Group)
• Naya Anllo-Valdo (Pueblo of Acoma)

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Not Our Farm espera con entusiasmo organizar una conversación sobre cómo resistir la construcción de centros de datos desde una perspectiva de soberanía alimentaria y sistemas alimentarios. Escucharemos a organizadores y agricultores que están trabajando para detener la construcción de centros de datos en sus respectivas comunidades.

La construcción de centros de datos ha aumentado enormemente en escala y número en los últimos años, y está estrechamente vinculada con la industria de los combustibles fósiles, la industria militar y de defensa y la minería de criptomonedas. Los centros de datos se están construyendo principalmente en territorios de Naciones Tribales y comunidades indígenas, así como en comunidades rurales y agrícolas y en zonas cercanas a viviendas económicas.

A través de las presentaciones de nuestros ponentes invitades y de la conversación con elles, exploraremos las conexiones entre la expansión de los centros de datos, la extracción de minerales, la defensa de la tierra y el agua, la agricultura y los sistemas alimentarios.

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11/10/2026 at 07:00PM

Trump, and the data center/AI and oil & gas lobbyists cooked up a bill to gut our nation’s foundational environmental and historic preservation laws. Chuck Schumer just voted to advance it in the Senate, even as Trump taunted him. This is a dirty deal to allow development of everything from more data centers and gas pipelines to ice detention centers and mining.

Schumer’s daughter works for Open AI. AI and data center developers badly want this bill because people nationwide are revolting against data centers - and stopping their construction. They need this bill to help trample local opposition. Schumer’s always raised huge money from wall street and tech companies, in addition to his blatant personal conflict.

Now he’s advanced a bill that takes us back several decades by gutting foundational environmental and historic preservation laws: the National Environmental Policy Act, Historic Preservation Act, Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act. These are the laws people use to prevent horrificly bad environmental projects like hyperscale data centers. Read our bill memo here to learn more.

Join us and other grassroots groups to show Schumer we won’t take this betrayal lying down. We’ll be outside his building at 6 pm to tell Schumer he sold us out, and warn Jeffries not to follow Schumer’s deceitful example.

9 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY 11215

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11/10/2026 at 06:00PM

Please join Citizens’ Climate Lobby and Dream.org on Tuesday, November 10, for a congressional briefing on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA). With Jenifer Tyler, CCL SVP of Government Affairs, former Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. John Rotko (R-N.Y.).

Tuesday, November 10 | 12–1 PM | Rayburn 2060

11/10/2026 at 12:00PM