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    League and Partners Urge Speaker Pelosi to Bring DC Voting Rights to the Floor

    January 14, 2009

    Dear Speaker Pelosi:

    On behalf of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) and undersigned individual organizations, we are writing to ask you to bring H.R. 157, the “District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act,” (“DC VRA”) to a vote as soon as possible.  Before Congress begins to consider an economic recovery package and many other proposals that so greatly affect our nation’s future, it should assure the citizens of Washington, DC and Utah that Congress is committed to giving them a fair and equal voice.

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    League Urges House to Reauthorize SCHIP

    January 12, 2009


    To:      Members of the U.S. House of Representatives

    From:   Mary G. Wilson, President

    Re:      SCHIP Reauthorization

    The League of Women Voters urges you to support reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) when it comes to the House floor for a vote.  In the years since Congress first passed SCHIP, the program has provided access to health care coverage to six million low-income children.  However, there are still over nine million children who remain uninsured.

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    Strong And Effective Lobbying Reforms

    February 27, 2006

    Dear Senator,

    The undersigned groups urge you to support strong and effective reforms to respond to the current Washington lobbying scandals, when the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Committee) marks up legislation to address these scandals.

    The groups include the Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters, Public Citizen and U.S. PIRG.

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