The Friends Committee on National Legislation deplores Attorney General Jeff Session’s recent decision to pause reforms designed to protect people from militarized policing.
In response to one of the deadliest U.S.-led bombings of civilians in 25 years, the Friends Committee on National Legislation mourns the loss of life and expresses grave concern about U.S. complicity in the March 17 airstrike that killed scores of civilians in a neighborhood in Mosul, Iraq.
Today, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) that rolls back public health protections and climate action put in place by President Obama.
We scored a major victory today. The House Republicans pulled the American Health Care Act, deciding not to proceed with a bill that would have dismantled Medicaid and threatened health coverage for millions of people in our country.
Mr. Sessions is ordering federal prosecutors to ramp up prosecutions and likely seek heavier sentences on drug crimes.
The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) strongly opposes President Trump’s revised executive order that will close our doors to refugees fleeing violence and persecution and bans nationals from six Muslim-majority countries, said Yasmine Taeb, FCNL’s lead lobbyist on human rights and civil liberties.
On February 21, the Department of Homeland Security released memorandums instructing the agency to implement the two executive orders that scale up immigration and border enforcement, endangering U.S. communities.
Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR) entered this statement into the record honoring the life and work of David Culp, who advocated for nuclear disarmament as an FCNL lobbyist for nearly two decades.
Our entire FCNL community is mourning the loss of our colleague and friend whose passion and leadership on issues of nuclear disarmament, the outdoors, and Washington, DC politics was second to none.
The Friends Committee on National Legislation is outraged by and strongly opposes President Trump’s executive order that will close our doors to refugees fleeing violence and persecution.
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