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  • Love Thy Neighbor: Annual Meeting 2019

    Event - Annual Meeting | November 14, 2019
    More than 400 Quakers and friends came together from across the country to engage in worship, listening, and advocacy as we lobbied together to end endless war!

  • #DisarmThePatriarchy

    Update | January 26, 2018
    Our friends at WAND led a Twitter chat on women working for a world free of nuclear weapons. Here’s what happened.

  • FCNL Opposes Two Enforcement-Only Immigration Bills

    Statement | May 22, 2017
    The House Judiciary Committee is marking up two bills (H.R. 2406 and H.R. 2407) that would expand immigration enforcement without offering necessary accompanying policy reforms to the U.S. immigration system.

  • FCNL Opposes New "SAFE" Act

    Statement | May 18, 2017
    The House Judiciary Committee is marking up a newly revised version of a 2013 bill that would expand detention and immigration enforcement, undermining community safety and protections for vulnerable communities. Even with revisions, FCNL’s concerns remain the same.

  • 53 Christian Leaders Urge Congress to Support Iran Deal

    Press Release | September 29, 2016
    Fifty-three Christian leaders representing dozens denominations and Christian organizations sent a letter to Congress today, urging lawmakers to vote in favor of the Vienna agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear program.

  • Quaker Lobby Criticizes Attorney General’s Biblical Justification for Breaking Up Families

    Press Release | June 15, 2018
    Washington, DC (June 15, 2018) – The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) today strongly criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions for using the Bible to justify the separation of children from their families at the United States-Mexico border.

  • Governance

    Page | September 30, 2020
    FCNL is composed of two distinct organizations: the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a lobbying organization; and the FCNL Education Fund, a charitable organization. Both are nonpartisan, in the public interest, and governed by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

  • Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day: The Long Arc of FCNL Advocacy

    Event | September 23, 2019
    Columbus Day overlooks a painful colonial history and minimizes the important contributions made by Indigenous peoples throughout this continent’s history. That’s why FCNL has chosen to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead.

  • Equity and Justice -- for All

    Update | September 26, 2016
    On any given day, I am outraged and saddened by the violence of injustice in the world. Yesterday it was Philando Castile and the day before that it was Alton Sterling. This morning, we wake to the murders of police officers in Dallas. The week before that it was the violence against civilians in Baghdad, Ankara, Orlando. That’s only the past 30 days.

  • Quaker Lobby Honors Representative Cole at 80th Annual Meeting

    Press Release | November 16, 2023
    Representative Tom Cole (OK-04) will receive the FCNL Justice Award today by FCNL during their 80th Annual Meeting, taking place through November 19.