The League and coalition partners sent a letter to Speaker-designee Boehner urging him to preserve or strengthen House ethics rules and standards of conduct.
Citizen and Reform Groups Call on Speaker-designee Boehner and Majority Leader-designee Cantor to Announce Their Support for Office Of Congressional Ethics and Their Opposition to any Efforts to Weaken or Undermine the Office
Joint Statement of Groups
Our organizations today call on House Speaker-designee John Boehner and House Majority Leader-designee Eric Cantor to announce their support for continuing the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) and their opposition to any efforts to weaken or undermine the Office in the next Congress.
"You can’t fire the cop and then say you’re against crime," says League of Women Voters
Washington, DC – The League of Women Voters today called on Speaker-elect John Boehner to retain the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) in the upcoming 112th Congress and to maintain the OCE’s duties, powers and structure.
League President Elisabeth MacNamara sent a letter to Speaker-elect Boehner urging him to retain the Office of Congressional Ethics in the upcoming 112th Congress.
League President Elisabeth MacNamara sent a letter to Speaker-elect Boehner urging him to retain the Office of Congressional Ethics in the upcoming 112th Congress.
League Calls on Congress to Fix Secret Cash in American Elections
Washington, DC – The League of Women Voters of the U.S. reflected on the midterm elections today, expressing grave concern about the conduct of the 2010 elections.
Below is a list of letters to the editor published in newspapers across the country on the DISCLOSE Act, leading up to the election in November of 2010. The list is alphabetical by state and then League. For those newspapers that require a subscription a link was not included.
Arizona
Sun City West Independent - LWV Northwest Mircopa County
Delaware
Wilmington News Journal and Delware State News - LWV Delaware
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Contact: Kelly Ceballos |
| October 15, 2010 | 202-263-1331 |
LEAGUE CALLS ON MEDIA TO STOP SECRET POLITICAL ADVERTISING
Candidates Asked to Repudiate Secretly Funded Ads
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 23, 2010
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