League Urges Bipartisan Committee to Continue to Demand Transparency on the 2020 Census (Blog) 5/18/2018 The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee continues to explore the proposal of a question related to citizenship on the 2020 Census.
League Sends Letter to House Committee on Citizenship and the U.S. Census (Article) 5/10/2018 The League sent a letter to the U.S. House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee urging the committee to use its power and remove the citizenship question from the 2020 Census.
League Commends Chairman Gowdy for Demanding DOJ Official Answer Census Citizenship Questions (Blog) 5/9/2018 It is up to Congress to exercise oversight authority over the Census Bureau and remove the citizenship question from the 2020 Census.
Bustle: March For Our Lives' Gun Control Agenda Is Clear. Now It Needs To Turn Protesters Into Voters. (News Clips) 4/4/2018 "It is safe to say that we have never registered this many people, so early in the year, during a non-presidential election year."
Boston Herald: Election activists push for auto registration (News Clips) 11/12/2017 The League supports automatic voter registration. In Massachusetts, League Executive Director Meryl Kessler calls it, “the next logical step in the modernization of the electoral process”.
League Expresses Concerns Over Healthcare.gov Outages (Legal Document) 10/24/2017 The League joined a letter sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding scheduled outages of healthcare.gov during the shortened 2017 open enrollment period.
What does the loss of DACA really mean for the US? (Blog) 10/6/2017 The League of Women Voters urges Congress to pass the Dream Act without amendment, to protect, not turn away, the 800,000-young people who were brought to the United States as children.
Graham-Cassidy Health Care Proposal Moving in Senate (Blog) 9/21/2017 This could be our last chance to protect the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Next week, the U.S. Senate is gearing up to vote on a new plan to replace the ACA before the end of the month.
LWVUS Joins Effort to Extend Funding for CHIP (Legal Document) 9/13/2017 The League joined other groups calling on Congress to extend and fund the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
New Health Care Bill is More of the Same (Press Release) 9/13/2017 This Hail Mary Attempt to Repeal Obamacare will Harm Millions