Obama Administration Violating Voting Rights Law (Blog) 10/30/2015 We've been lobbying to make sure the healthcare exchanges required by the ACA comply with the National Voter Registration Act. This week, we asked the president for voluntary compliance.
League Urges Congress to Protect Funding for Farm Bill Conservation Programs (Legal Document) 10/19/2015 The League joined with over one hundred other organizations urging Congressional appropriators to protect mandatory funding for farm bill conservation programs, support robust discretionary funding…
League Urges IRS to Adopt New 501 (c)(4) Regulations (Article) 9/10/2015 The League of Women Voters joined with other concerned organizations to urge the Internal Revenue Service to adopt new regulations that properly interpret the statutory eligibility requirements to…
15 Years of Making Democracy Work (Blog) 8/24/2015 I will be stepping down in a few weeks after 15 years as the League’s executive director. I am confident that the League will continue its work to make American democracy as good as the ideals on…
League Advocates for Continued Funding to Restore the Great Lakes (Legal Document) 8/5/2015 The League joined other coalition partners in sending a letter to the Office of Management and Budget requesting continued funding for Great Lakes restoration priorities.
Medicaid and Medicare Turn 50 (Blog) 7/28/2015 Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments into law thereby creating two of our most influential federal programs – Medicaid and Medicare.
League Calls on Senate to Support Stop Super PAC-Candidate Coordination Act (Legal Document) 7/23/2015 The League joined a letter to U.S. Senators encouraging Senators to support and co-sponsor the Stop Super PAC-Candidate Coordination Act. The bill, sponsored by Senator Leahy (D-VT), would shut down…
League Joins Comments to Census Bureau (Article) 7/20/2015 The League joined national civil rights, voting rights, labor and criminal justice organizations in submitting comments to the Census Bureau asking that incarcerated persons be counted at their home…
Celebrate the 4th of July by Making Democracy Work (Blog) 7/3/2015 Independence Day marks the birth of our nation and the signing of the Declaration of Independence that outlined the key tenets that our Constitution would be based on.
Key Win at the Supreme Court on Health Care Tax Subsidies (Blog) 6/25/2015 The League joined an amicus brief in King v. Burwell that focused on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on women’s health, arguing that the tax subsidies are essential to women’s health and the…