League Outlines Priorities for State of the Union (Legal Document) 2/24/2022 The League sent a letter to the White House outlining the issues that we hope President Biden will touch on during the State of the Union.
LWVUS joins request for global gender equality investments in Biden funding requests (Legal Document) 10/25/2021 LWVUS joined a letter sent to the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), requesting increased investments in global gender equality
League Supports Protect Our Democracy Act (Legal Document) 9/23/2021 The League joined nearly 160 groups supporting the Protect Our Democracy Act (PODA).
League urges support for S.1267 the Bipartisan 2020 Census Deadline Extensions Act (Legal Document) 6/1/2021 LWVUS with over 100 organizations urges Senators to cosponsor the bipartisan 2020 Census Deadline Extensions Act to extend the deadlines for delivering apportionment and redistricting data
League Joins Statement on Appropriate Data for Redistricting (Legal Document) 4/30/2021 LWVUS joined a statement by Advancing Justice, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and National Conference on Citizenship to warn inappropriate data for redistricting.
LWVUS Letter to Congress re ERA ratification (Legal Document) 3/11/2021 The League has fought for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to secure equal rights and we ask Congress to pass HJ Res 17, to remove its ratification deadline.
LWV urges President Biden to rescind Executive Order 13380 and cease the creation of a citizenship database (Legal Document) 1/20/2021 LWV joined other census and redistricting champions in calling for the recission of EO 13380, which mandated the Census Bureau creation of a block-level citizenship database.
League Urges U.S. Senate to Extend Census Reporting Deadlines (Legal Document) 11/19/2020 LWVUS is urging Congress to extend the statutory reporting deadlines that the U.S. Census must follow when sending apportionment numbers to the President and sending redistricting data to the states…
League Urges U.S. Senate to Extend Census Deadlines (Legal Document) 11/4/2020 The League joined coalition partners in urging the U.S. Senate to extend statutory reporting deadlines for apportionment and redistricting data, to give the U.S. Census Bureau sufficient…
League Joins Letter to Presidential Debate Moderators (Legal Document) 9/24/2020 The League of Women Voters joined a letter as part of the Declaration for American Democracy (DFAD) coalition calling on debate moderators to ask questions relating to democracy reform.