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LWVUS Welcomes Director Santos to the Census Bureau  (Legal Document)

The League reached out to welcome Director Santos who was confirmed to the Census Bureau earlier this year. Census work is incredibly important to our democracy. 

LWVUS Urges Senators to Pass Civics Secures Democracy Act  (Legal Document)

The League supports bringing the Civics Secures Democracy Act for debate and passage to promote an informed citizenship via K-12 education nationwide. 

LWVUS joins partners asking OMB to revise standards for federal data on race and ethnicity (Legal Document)

LWVUS joined partners on a letter asking the Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget to move forward with revising the standards for federal data on race and ethnicity.

League Supports Protect Our Democracy Act (Legal Document)

The League joined nearly 160 groups supporting the Protect Our Democracy Act (PODA).

League Joins Call to Support the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (Legal Document)

The League joined a letter led by the Leadership Conference in support of two critical pieces of legislation needed to protect the freedom to vote: For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights…

League urges support for S.1267 the Bipartisan 2020 Census Deadline Extensions Act (Legal Document)

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)

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.

LWV urges President Biden to rescind Executive Order 13380 and cease the creation of a citizenship database (Legal Document)

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 Affirms Support for the For the People Act in 117th Congress (Legal Document)

LWVUS sent a letter to Senate and House leadership outlining our continued support for the legislation commonly referred to as HR1 or the For the People Act. 

League Urges U.S. Senate to Extend Census Reporting Deadlines (Legal Document)

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.