League Joins Efforts to Support Funding in 4th COVID-19 Stimulus (Legal Document) 4/22/2020 LWVUS has actively been supporting additional measures for inclusion in the next emergency funding stimulus bills related to the coronavirus.
League Asks for Extension of Comments Period to Department of Labor (Legal Document) 9/11/2019 We joined 92 organizations in requesting that the Department of Labor extend the comment period for proposed rules on the equal opportunity clause's religious exemption.
League Asks Congress to Restore Title X and Reject Gag Rule Through Appropriations Processes (Legal Document) 9/11/2019 With 136 organizations, we wrote to Congressional leadership to ask that provisions that promote health care access for millions of people in the U.S. and globally be included in the final…
League Expresses Concerns Over Healthcare.gov Outages (Legal Document) 10/24/2017 The League joined a letter sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding scheduled outages of healthcare.gov during the shortened 2017 open enrollment period.
League Joins 234 Organizations Calling on Senate to Reject Graham-Cassidy Proposal (Legal Document) 9/25/2017 The League joined over 230 organizations in a letter to the U.S. Senate urging Senators to oppose the Graham-Cassidy proposal (Graham-Cassidy).
LWVUS Joins Effort to Extend Funding for CHIP (Legal Document) 9/13/2017 The League joined other groups calling on Congress to extend and fund the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
League Joins Letter to Congress Regarding Health Care Market Stabilization (Legal Document) 9/5/2017 The League joined a letter sent to leadership in the U.S.
League Calls on President Trump to Provide Cost Sharing Payments Under ACA (Legal Document) 8/30/2017 The League joined health care, labor and community organizations by calling on President Trump to commit to providing the cost-sharing reduction payments required under the Affordable Care Act.
League Opposes Motion to Proceed to Senate Health Care Bill (Legal Document) 7/24/2017 The League opposes the motion to proceed on the Better Care Reconciliation Act, which will eliminate affordable quality health care for 22 million Americans by gutting the Affordable Care Act and…
League Joins Letter in Support of Paid Family Leave (Legal Document) 6/30/2017 The League joined more than 340 organizations representing a range of demographic groups from more than 40 states in sending a letter to Congress urging members to support an inclusive paid family…