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...

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, 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. – 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...