WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives is voting on two bills today that would create a pathway to citizenship for millions of people who have called the United States home for years or decades. Voters across the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Bennie Thompson (D-MS) today reintroduced the Safe Line Speeds During COVID-19 Act, legislation that would ban the increase of poultry and...
WASHINGTON -- President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan today. It will distribute $1.9 trillion in disaster relief and stimulus to the American people, with funding set aside for vaccine distribution, extended unemployment...
Montgomery, Ala. — SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang released the following statement in response to the confirmation of Merrick Garland as U.S. Attorney General: “We congratulate Attorney General Garland, and we...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The following response to President Biden's March 7 Executive Order "Promoting Access to Voting" is by Margaret Huang, President and CEO for the SPLC Action Fund: "We commend President Biden’s Executive Order...
WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang released the statement below following the passage of the American Rescue Plan in the U.S. Senate. “While it is many months overdue, the passage of the American...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the For the People Act, or H.R. 1, by a vote of 220-210. Zero House Republicans voted in favor of the bill. Provisions of H.R. 1 include: restoring federal...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the US House of Representatives passed the Equality Act, 224-206, groundbreaking civil rights legislation that would explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the US House of Representatives reintroduced the Equality Act, groundbreaking civil rights legislation that would explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender...