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  • Q&A: Lethal Disregard for People on the Move

    Background | March 11, 2022
    In December 2020, several Quaker organizations, including FCNL, released a joint “Quaker Statement on Migration,” which outlined a shared version for Friends’ work on migration policy. We spoke with Laurel Townhead, human rights and refugees representative for the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva, to learn more about her work and the process behind the document

  • Three Months After Its Introduction, We Need The Freedom Of Religion Act More Than Ever.

    FCNL in the News | October 4, 2016

    Yasmine Taeb, the Legislative Representative for Human Rights & Civil Liberties at the Friends Committee on National Legislation joined the House delegation on stage.

  • Annual Meeting 2025 Speakers

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    Flyer advertising Annual Meeting 2025: Still Speaking Truth to Power

  • FCNL Applauds Committee Passage of Genocide, Atrocities Prevention Act

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    Washington, DC (May 17, 2018) – The Quaker lobby, the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) applauded the approval today of the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2017 (H.R. 3030) by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

  • Quaker Lobby Applauds Congress for Passing Farm Bill, Protecting Struggling Families by Supporting SNAP

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    Washington, DC – After months of intense negotiations and back-and-forth, both the House and Senate have approved the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (H.R.2), now headed to the President to be signed into law. The final bill protects and strengthens SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) provisions. It also excludes harsh provisions in the House bill that would have cut people from SNAP who are struggling to find or keep work.

  • FCNL Commends Bipartisan Farm Bill Passage

    Statement | June 22, 2020
    Washington, DC (June 29, 2018) – The Quaker lobby, the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), applauds the Senate for protecting vital nutrition programs in the Senate Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, which passed with strong bipartisan support in an 86-11 vote last night.

  • FCNL Welcomes New Ways to Track Ongoing Police Militarization

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    Washington, DC - The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) today applauded House appropriators taking several modest steps to change a 1997 law that created a pipeline of weapons and materials between the Pentagon and local police departments. The pipeline is known as the 1033 program after a provision in the recently renewed National Defense Authorization Act.

  • New Public Charge Rule Prioritizes Wealth over Hard Work and Family

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    Washington, DC – The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) strongly opposes a rule that would make it more difficult for immigrants to obtain green cards if they have used social services.

  • Nuclear Forces Treaty Needed to Keep the Peace in Europe

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    Washington – The Friends Committee today urged President Donald Trump not to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) between Russia and the United States.

  • Sitara Nath looks to create immigration policy change with grassroots effort from The Bluff

    FCNL in the News | September 30, 2016

    “Nath spent 10 days this past summer in Washington D.C. with the nonprofit Friends Committee on National Legislation learning and beginning to lobby for immigration reform.”