League to Host 500 Events on National Voter Registration Day (Press Release) 9/23/2019 New & Improved VOTE411 has everything voters need ahead of 2020 WASHINGTON – Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day…
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…
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.…
LWVUS to U.S. House: Restore the Voting Rights Act (Legal Document) 8/14/2019 LWVUS seeks to find common ground with lawmakers as H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act moves forward in Committee this fall. Members of the…
LWVUS Urges Members of U.S. House to cosponsor H. Res. 513 (Legal Document) 8/14/2019 A memo to members of the U.S. House supports H. Res. 513, which reaffirms the importance of democracy and the freedoms that it brings. The LWVUS…
League and Former Senate Leaders Push for National Democracy Month (Press Release) 7/29/2019 WASHINGTON - The League of Women Voters, along with four respected former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders (Bob Dole, George Mitchell, Trent Lott and Tom…
LWV Volunteer Lobby Corps Spring Update from Capitol Hill (Blog) 7/5/2019 This blog post was written by LWVUS Lobby Corps Chair, Jackie Coolidge. The LWVUS Volunteer Lobby Corps had a very active spring this year. The…
League Joins Civil Rights Groups in Urging Supreme Court to Protect LGBTQ+ Workers (Press Release) 7/3/2019 WASHINGTON - Today the League of Women Voters joined more than 50 organizations in filing an amicus brief for a trio of civil rights cases…
League Urges Co-Sponsorship of Resolution Establishing Democracy Month (Article) 6/26/2019 The League of Women Voters sent a memo to U.S. Senators urging them to co-sponsor S. Res 252, a resolution to establish September as…, Dear Senator: The League of Women Voters, with affiliates in communities across your state, joins four former Senate Majority Leaders, Bob Dole,…
LWV Joins D.C. Voting Rights Case (Press Release) 6/10/2019 D.C. residents are tax-paying citizens who deserve to be fully enfranchised WASHINGTON, D.C.—The League of Women Voters of the United…