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Letters

LWVUS Endorses Children’s Fundamental Rights and Climate Recovery Resolution (Legal Document)

LWVUS stood with Members of Congress and the Children’s Fundamental Rights and Climate Recovery Resolution as it was introduced on September 23, 2020.

League Urges Congress to reject Funding Increases to ICE and CBP (Legal Document)

LWVUS joined immigrant and justice advocacy groups on a Defund Hate letter to House leadership calling for no funding increases for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

League Sends Letter Urging Postal Service to Continue Longstanding Practice of Placing Voter Registration Forms in Postal Offices (Legal Document)

LWVUS and LWV of Texas sent a letter to the Postmaster General demanding that the Postal Service continue their longstanding practice of displaying and providing voter registration forms in post offices across the country.

LWV Signs Letter Expressing Concern on U.S. Terminating Relations with W.H.O (Legal Document)

LWV joined public health advocacy groups in a letter expressing grave concern regarding the United States Government’s decision to terminate its relationship with the World Health Organization (W.H.O). 

Supporting the Deliver for America Act- Letter to House of Representatives (Legal Document)

With the ongoing discourse around the United States Postal Service, LWVUS joined 50 other organizations in a letter addressing the U.S. House of Representatives urging them to vote YES on the Delivering for America Act. The Delivering for America Act prevents the Postmaster General from enacting structural changes to the Postal Service and allocated $25 billion in funding for the organization. This legislation passed the U.S. House in a bipartisan vote on Saturday, August 22.

LWVUS Submits Letter to Senate on American Democracy Month (Legal Document)

LWVUS submitted a letter to members of the Senate asking for them to co-sponsor S.Res. 672, a bipartisan Senate resolution to establish September 2020 as National Democracy Month. 

LWVUS Signs letter with Census Project to Extend Reporting Timeline for Census (Legal Document)

The League joined the Census Project on a letter extending statutory reporting deadlines for the Census.

LWVUS and Common Cause Demand Census Bureau Extend Operation Deadline (Legal Document)

LWVUS and Common Cause have written a letter to Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham asking him to commit to a fair and accurate census count. 

League asks for House of Representatives to fund Public Transportation (Legal Document)

The League of Women Voters signed onto a letter asking for House Leadership to allocate $32 Billion for public transit in additional, targeted, emergency operating support for public transit systems across the country to continue to safely provide essential services.

LWVUS Calls on Congress to Act on Institutional Violence Against Black Communities (Legal Document)

LWVUS joined 189 organizations addressing Congressional leadership and standing in solidarity with Black Women’s Reproductive Justice advocates to protect the bodily autonomy and reproductive rights of all people.