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  • Washington Newsletter: Lessons from the 117th Congress and Looking Ahead to the 118th Congress

    Washington Newsletter | May 1, 2023
    As the 118th session of the United States Congress begins, Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) and its network of advocates will be lobbying legislators based on 13 legislative priorities in the next two years. The priorities reflect the discernment of more than 250 Quaker meetings, churches, individuals, and organizations from all over the country.

  • Jackson Malkus

    Person - Staff | September 19, 2025
    Jackson Malkus is Lead Program Coordinator at FCNL. He develops and delivers trainings and workshops to build advocacy and organizing skills. He also works to increase FCNL’s capacity to share training materials and lead constituent-facing programs.

  • Discerning the Future of the American Experiment at Chautauqua

    Update | 

    What a joy to spend a week serving as the Friend of the Week at Quaker House Chautauqua.

  • Minute Calling for Humanity in the Middle East - Albuquerque Monthly Meeting (NM)

    Meeting Minute | January 8, 2025
    Albuquerque Monthly Meeting (NM) reaffirm their Minuted commitments and calls for reconciliation among all people in this conflict.

  • Powerful Beyond Measure: Trusting the Call to Leadership Exercising Our Citizenship

    Statement | June 12, 2020
    Assuming there may be people in this Meeting who might find dissonance between Quakerism and leadership, consider three key practices of both our faith and of leadership: listening, trusting, and acting.

  • Trump’s budget sacrifices diplomacy for bigger guns

    FCNL in the News | May 24, 2017

    “Theo Sitther, Legislative Secretary for Peacebuilding at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, told ThinkProgress he was worried about the impact this ‘heavily militarized’ budget would have on conflict resolution.”

  • Annual Meeting 2026

    Event - Annual Meeting |  -

    FCNL’s Annual Meeting will be held this year in Washington, DC (at Friends Meeting of Washington) and online, November 12-14, 2026. Mark your calendars now! Registration will open in early May.

  • What's the real value of U.S. foreign aid?

    FCNL in the News | May 22, 2017

    “According to the Friends Committee on National Legislation, prioritizing development would be 60 times less expensive than military intervention and the subsequent assistance required for helping nations rebuild in the aftermath.”

  • Minute Concerning the War in the Middle East: Baltimore Yearly Meetng

    Meeting Minute | January 7, 2025
    Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM) of the Religious Society of Friends Minute as to the ongoing U.S. military aid in the Israeli-Palestinian War

  • Quaker Lobby says Reject More Unchecked War Funding

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    In response to this week’s final agreement on the National Defense Authorization Act, Friends Committee on National Legislation’s Executive Secretary Diane Randall released the following statement: