LWVUS Opposes Effort to Exclude Noncitizens from Apportionment Count (Legal Document) 5/7/2024 LWVUS and partners urged Congress to oppose H.R. 7109, the Equal Representation Act.
LWVUS Submits Statement to Senate around Hearing on AI and Deepfakes in Elections (Legal Document) 4/17/2024 LWVUS submitted a statement for the record to the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law in the US Senate. The Hearing was titled Oversight of AI: Election Deepfakes.
LWVUS Joins "Vision for Justice" Policy Paradigm for Public Safety (Legal Document) 4/11/2024 LWVUS signed onto The Leadership Conference's relaunched Vision for Justice, a comprehensive new policy paradigm for public safety that respects the dignity and human rights of all people.
LWVUS Joins Letter to Support Census Funding (Legal Document) 4/10/2024 LWVUS joined a letter to urge Congress to provide the U.S. Census Bureau with $2 billion in FY 2025.
League Opposes Equal Representation Act (Legal Document) 4/9/2024 The League joined coalition partners to oppose H.R. 7109, the Equal Representation Act, and any future efforts to ask about citizenship or immigration status on the decennial census and to exclude…
LWVUS Joins Letter to Congress Supporting DC Autonomy (Legal Document) 3/15/2024 LWVUS joined 50 other organizations in imploring Congress to respect DC's autonomy. The House and Senate Appropriations Committees have proposed legislation that would interfere with the DC Council’s…
LWVUS Joins Letter to Congress Urging Increased Funding for HHS' Office for Civil Rights (Legal Document) 3/13/2024 LWVUS signed onto a letter to the congressional subcommittees on Health and Human Services (HHS) urging them to double funding for HHS' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in FY25 appropriations. OCR…
LWVUS Shares Priorities for State of the Union with White House (Legal Document) 2/14/2024 The League sent a memo to the White House ahead of the State of the Union address to urge that the President touch on topics that are important to our democracy.
LWVUS Joins Letter Urging President to Remove Anti-abortion Weldon Amendment from FY25 Budget (Legal Document) 2/1/2024 The League signed onto a letter to the President urging him to ensure that the Weldon Amendment is not included in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget. The Weldon Amendment is an appropriations rider…
League joins call for disclosure of presidential campaign bundlers (Legal Document) 1/22/2024 LWVUS joined a coalition of groups calling calls on presidential candidates to reveal their campaign “bundlers.” This letter follows up on a similar letter sent by this cross-partisan coalition in…