德州参议院委员会今成立！打电话给议员反对SB147和SB552
截止到今天(02/02/2023)，德州Senate的各个Committee（委员会）已经成立，这几天副州长会把SB147和SB552分配到某一个Committee里面去进一步审阅。
根据目前的情况来看，这两个带有歧视性的提案 大概率会被分配到下面这三个委员会之一。
(R 8: D 3)Committee on Business & Commerce
(R 5: D 4)Committee on Natural Resources & Economic Development
(R 6: D 3)Committee on Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs
可以看到，每个组委会里面，共和党和民主党的比例悬殊。考虑到这2个提案是由共和党的参议员提出，且又得到了州长的支持，因此对华人来说，前景并不乐观。
下面是所有上面的三个committee的参议员的电话列表，请大家这几天集中精力打这些电话或发邮件表示反对。
如果这些参议员是你自己选区的，那你更应该抓住这么机会来发声。如果你想查看这些参议员是不是你自己选区的。可以通过这个网站来查询：
通过这个链接https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home（或点击文章左下角的“原文链接”），可以找到你所对应的Texas House Representative和Texas Senator议员。然后点击他们的名字进入他们个人页面，寻找“Email”字样，然后填写你的个人信息和抗议内容。
即便参议员并不在你的选区，你的抗议也会帮助参议员来了解这两个提案，希望他们能够反对这两个提案。
参议员联系方式：
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
DAN PATRICK
Call: (512) 463-0001
Message: (512) 463-5342
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Senator: Bryan Hughes
District: 01
Party: Republican
Tel:
(903) 581-1776 (TEL)
(512) 463-0101 (TEL)
(903) 923-0404 (TEL)
(903) 753-8137 (TEL)
(903) 569-8880 (TEL)
(903) 223-7958 (TEL)
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Senator: Robert Nichols
District: 03
Party: Republican
Tel:
(903) 589-3003 (TEL)
(512) 463-0103 (TEL)
1 (800) 959-8633 (TOLL-FREE)
(936) 564-4252 (TEL)
(936) 699-4988 (TEL)
(409) 755-9893 (TEL)
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Senator: Brandon Creighton
District: 04
Party: Republican
Tel:
(281) 292-4128 (TEL)
(512) 463-0104 (TEL)
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Senator: Charles Schwertner
District: 05
Party: Republican
Tel:
(979) 776-0222 (TEL)
(512) 463-0105 (TEL)
(512) 863-8456 (TEL)
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Senator: Carol Alvarado
District: 06
Party: Democrat
Tel:
(713) 926-6257 (TEL)
(512) 463-0106 (TEL)
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Senator: Kelly Hancock
District: 09
Party: Republican
Tel:
(817) 514-3804 (TEL)
(512) 463-0109 (TEL)
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Senator: Phil King
District: 10
Party: Republican
Tel:
(512) 463-0110 (TEL)
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Senator: Mayes Middleton
District: 11
Party: Republican
Tel:
(512) 463-0111 (TEL)
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Senator: Borris L. Miles
District: 13
Party: Democrat
Tel:
(713) 665-8322 (TEL)
(512) 463-0113 (TEL)
(281) 261-2360 (TEL)
(713) 223-0387 (TEL)
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Senator: Nathan Johnson
District: 16
Party: Democrat
Tel:
(972) 701-0349 (TEL)
(512) 463-0116 (TEL)
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Senator: Lois W. Kolkhorst
District: 18
Party: Republican
Tel:
(979) 251-7888 (TEL)
(512) 463-0118 (TEL)
(281) 394-5610 (TEL)
(361) 573-7300 (TEL)
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Senator: Roland Gutierrez
District: 19
Party: Democrat
Tel:
(210) 532-2302 (TEL)
(512) 463-0119 (TEL)
(830) 278-1234 (TEL)
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Senator: Judith Zaffirini
District: 21
Party: Democrat
(956) 722-2293 (TEL)
(512) 463-0121 (TEL)
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Senator: Brian Birdwell
District: 22
Party: Republican
Tel:
(254) 772-6225 (TEL)
(512) 463-0122 (TEL)
(817) 573-9622 (TEL)
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Senator: Pete Flores
District: 24
Party: Republican
Tel:
(512) 463-0124 (TEL)
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Senator: Donna Campbell
District: 25
Party: Republican
Tel:
(830) 626-0065 (TEL)
(512) 463-0125 (TEL)
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Senator: José Menéndez
District: 26
Party: Democrat
Tel:
(210) 733-6604 (TEL)
(512) 463-0126 (TEL)
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Senator: Charles Perry
District: 28
Party: Republican
Tel:
(806) 783-9934 (TEL)
(512) 463-0128 (TEL)
(325) 481-0028 (TEL)
(940) 937-0909 (TEL)
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Senator: César Blanco
District: 29
Party: Democrat
Tel:
(512) 463-0129 (TEL)
(915) 595-5955 (TEL)
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Senator: Drew Springer
District: 30
Party: Republican
Tel:
(817) 594-7105 (TEL)
(512) 463-0130 (TEL)
(940) 580-1770 (TEL)
(940) 720-0831 (TEL)
(940) 323-9338 (TEL)
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Senator: Kevin Sparks
District: 31
Party: Republican
(512) 463-0131 (TEL)
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以下为抗议模板：
Subject: Please Vote No to SB 147 and SB 552
Your Message:
I am writing you this email to formally and strongly protest the proposed bill coded S. B. No. 147 and S. B. No. 552.
This bill is not different to the notorious Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which was repealed in 1943 and officially condemned by the United States Congress in 2011.
This bill is also not different to the notorious Alien Land Law of 1913, which was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1952. This bill is also not different to many other laws against Asian-Americans, all of which our country has recognized as impermissible racial discrimination and human rights violation.
This bill, if passed, will expressly deprive many legal immigrants' rights, including but not limited to the right granted by the Fair Housing Act (In the sale of housing, it is illegal discrimination to refuse to rent or sell housing, or make housing unavailable, because of national origin); the right of free association guaranteed by the First Amendment.
For the reasons stated above and for many more reasons that cannot all be identified in this short email, S.B. No. 147 and S. B. No. 552.will take this country back by almost a century to one of the darkest periods of our history—the segregation era.
Therefore, I, as a voter in your district, strongly urge that you vote against S.B. No. 147 and S. B. No. 552..