Open Letter to the U.S. Senate: Oppose All Campaign Finance Riders to Funding Bills (Blog) 11/21/2016 November 21, 2016 Dear Senator: Our organizations strongly urge you to oppose all campaign finance riders and other “poison…
Take Action: Fix the Federal Election Commission (Blog) 4/27/2016 The agency that is tasked with overseeing federal laws governing money in politics, the Federal Election Commission (FEC), is broken. Paralyzed by…
Updating the Presidential Public Financing System is Key to Removing Big Money from Politics (Blog) 4/12/2016 For 25 years the presidential public financing system, which has put value on small donors in our electoral process, has served the nation well.…
On the Affordable Care Act’s Anniversary, Another Supreme Court Challenge (Blog) 3/18/2016 Nearly six years ago, on March 23, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the biggest expansion of health care access since the…
Reducing the Corrupting Influence of Money in Politics (Blog) 1/21/2016 In his State of the Union speech this year, President Obama mentioned that in order to make politics better, the American people alongside…
Outlining the League’s Priority Federal Issues for 2016 (Blog) 1/12/2016 The League of Women Voters has the opportunity to play an active role on many priority issues in 2016. In addition to lobbying the 114th Congress in…
5 Tips to Get the Most Out of the State of the Union Speech (Blog) 1/7/2016 Next Tuesday, on January 12 at 9 pm Eastern, President Barack Obama will deliver his final State of the Union (SOTU) speech. The annual speech…
Leading the League into our 2nd Century Through Our 2016 Election Plan (Blog) 11/13/2015 On Tuesday, we brought together supporters, policymakers and members of the media to introduce Dr. Wylecia Wiggs Harris as our newest executive…
Obama Administration Violating Voting Rights Law (Blog) 10/30/2015 For several years, the League of Women Voters and our partners, Demos and Project Vote, have been lobbying the states and the Obama Administration to…
15 Years of Making Democracy Work (Blog) 8/24/2015 For all of 2015, we’ve been celebrating the 95th anniversary of the League of Women Voters. When Carrie Chapman Catt founded the League, she charged…