Fulcrum: Over 500 locations in one National Voter Registration Day drive (News Clips) 9/20/2019 This story was originally published by The Fulcrum. More than 500 registration events will be held across the country Tuesday by the League of Women…
Washington Post: Judge blocks Tennessee law restricting voter registration drives (News Clips) 9/12/2019 This story was originally published by The Washington Post. A federal judge has blocked a new Tennessee law that sought to restrict paid voter…
League Asks for Extension of Comments Period to Department of Labor (Legal Document) 9/11/2019 The League joined 92 organizations from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights requesting the Department of Labor extend the comment…
League Asks Congress to Restore Title X and Reject Gag Rule Through Appropriations Processes (Legal Document) 9/11/2019 The League joined 136 other organizations on letters to leadership in the U.S. House and Senate as well as leadership in the Appropriations…
League Calls on Senate to Fund Clean Water Program (Legal Document) 9/11/2019 The League joined organizations on a letter to the U.S. Senate asking for an increase in funding of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Nonpoint…
The Hill: This Women's Equality Day, stop romanticizing the 19th Amendment (News Clips) 8/26/2019 This story was originally published by The Hill. Op-ed from LWVUS CEO Virginia Kase Today is Women’s Equality Day, celebrating 99 years since the…
Leagues Step Up on Climate Action (Blog) 8/20/2019 This blog post was written by Cathy Frischmann and Claudia Keith from LWV of Oregon and LWV of Corvallis. Since 2015, the U.S.…
Leagues register over 20,000 new youth voters (Blog) 7/19/2019 June marked the end of our 2019 High School Voter Registration project. With a record-breaking 60 Leagues participating, volunteers registered a…, Leagues partnered with students and student groups who played a key role in the success of their program. One League stated that, while they may have…
League Urges Congress to Lift Severe Caps on Discretionary Spending (Article) 6/26/2019 LWVUS joined organizations connected to the Coalition on Human Needs on a letter urging members of Congress to lift severe caps on domestic and…, Dear Representative/Senator: The undersigned organizations strongly urge you to continue the progress advanced in the last two years by supporting…
The Right of Citizenship (Blog) 6/7/2019 Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a naturalization ceremony in Washington, D.C., where 118 women and men from countries around the globe…