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Letters

LWVUS Shares Priorities for State of the Union with White House (Legal Document)

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)

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.

League joins call for disclosure of presidential campaign bundlers (Legal Document)

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. 

LWVUS Submits Comments on First Phase of Environmental Justice Scorecard (Legal Document)

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.

LWVUS urges No Labels to disclose its donors (Legal Document)

The League joined a coalition of nonpartisan campaign finance groups on a letter urging No Labels to reveal its donors as it prepares to back a third-party bid for the presidency.

LWVUS Joins Letter to House on Pregnant Students Bill (Legal Document)

The League joined a sign-on letter to the US House Education and Workforce Committee before its markup of the Pregnant Students' Rights Act. This bill would require institutions of higher education to distribute information about the rights of, and resources for, pregnant students, but emphasizes information for students to carry to term and does not include abortion rights and access. The sign-on letter raises concerns about the bill's anti-reproductive choices impact and offers suggested supports for pregnant and parenting college students.

LWVUS Joins Comments Urging DoD to Collect Data on Service Members' Experience with Family Planning Services (Legal Document)

The League of Women Voters of the United States joined public comments to the Department of Defense (DoD) urging them to progress with, and publish the findings from, data collection on service members' experience with family planning services (e.g. abortion, contraception, and infertility assistance) provided by the DoD and community providers. This is to help identify areas where the DoD needs to develop care, programs, services, or policies after the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022).

LWVUS Urges Congress to Reject Unconstitutional Change to the Census (Legal Document)

The League urged Congress to oppose an appropriations amendment that would exclude undocumented immigrants from the congressional apportionment calculation after each census. 

LWVUS Joins Letter to Urge Appointment of a Woman from the Global South as UN Special Rapporteur (Legal Document)

The co-signing organizations believe that it is time that the Human Rights Council appoints a woman from the Global South as the new Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations. 

LWVUS Joins Comments Supporting Adding Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Fields to Medicare Enrollment Form (Legal Document)

The League of Women Voters of the United States joined public comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services supporting the addition of fields to the Medicare Part C & D enrollment form to collect information on enrollees' sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) to help advance health equity.