LWVUS Federal Lobby Corps lobbied Congress in support of the Next Step Home Act to restore the voting rights of thousands of Americans with prior convictions.
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 joined a letter to urge Congress to provide the U.S. Census Bureau with $2 billion in FY 2025.
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 noncitizens from the apportionment counts.
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 local control and impose the will of Congress onto DC’s nearly 700,000 residents.
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 enforces civil rights and health information security in HHS-funded or -administered programs, including HIPAA, ACA Section 1557, and parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This funding would support efforts in nondiscrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, language, age, sex, pregnancy or related conditions including pregnancy termination, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability; as well as its work to secure personal health information.
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.
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 that threatens the loss of federal funding for federal agencies and programs or state and local governments that require health insurance plans, health care institutions, or health care professionals to cover, provide, or refer for abortions.
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 October. The letter was sent to all Democratic and Republican candidates as well as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The League submitted comments to the Council on Environmental Quality in response to its request for information on Phase One of the Environmental Justice Scorecard, an executive order-directed assessment of what the federal government is doing to advance environmental justice. The League advised on ways to improve the scorecard's assessments and accessibility to facilitate the public's ability to monitor federal progress and hold the government accountable on advancing environmental justice for all.