Subject: FRIDAY: 11:30AM: Constitutional Responsibility Project to Announce Major Recess Activities, Unveil New Pennsylvania Poll
From: Natalie Raps <[email-masked]>
To: Natalie Raps <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:41:59 +0000

FOR PLANNING PURPOSES
April 28, 2016
Contact: Natalie Raps, 202.464.6956, [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
FRIDAY: Constitutional Responsibility Project to Announce Major Recess Activities, Unveil New Pennsylvania Poll
Press call with Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, Stephanie Cutter, Geoff Garin, and Tiernan Sittenfeld to discuss major activities over recess and Pennsylvania voter frustration around Senator Pat Toomey's failure to do his job
On Friday, April 29, 2016 at 11:30 am ET, the Constitutional Responsibility Project will host a press conference call to announce its latest slate of recess activities to press Senate Republicans to end their unprecedented Supreme Court obstructionism and give Chief Judge Garland a public hearing and up-or-down vote.
In addition, the Constitutional Responsibility Project in conjunction with Hart Research and the League of Conservation Voters will discuss a new poll finding that Pennsylvanians, including a majority of independents, disagree with Senator Pat Toomey's decision to block Chief Judge Merrick Garland from having a fair hearing and an up-or-down vote on his nomination.
Participants on the call include Jim Kenney, Mayor of Philadelphia, Stephanie Cutter with the Constitutional Responsibility Project, Geoff Garin, President of Hart Research Associates, and Tiernan Sittenfeld, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs at League of Conservation Voters.
The poll comes as Sen. Toomey, Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and the overwhelming majority of Republican Senators continue to shirk their constitutional responsibility and blow past the average<https://public.tableau.com/shared/6JZTHNXKS?:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no> waiting period since 1975 in which Supreme Court appointments have been given a fair hearing.
The call will be on the record and without embargo.
WHO:             Jim Kenney, Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Stephanie Cutter, Constitutional Responsibility Project
Geoff Garin, President, Hart Research Associates
Tiernan Sittenfeld, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, League of Conservation Voters

WHEN:           Friday, April 29, 2016
11:30 am ET
DIAL IN:        Please RSVP to [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]> for call-in information.

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