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The federal policy work by the Southern Poverty Law Center includes administrative and legislative advocacy aimed at improving the lives of people in the South. Below are letters, comments, testimony, reports and other SPLC Action Fund resources:

Click on any of our other core areas of work to find the SPLC’s other federal policy work.

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Decriminalization & Decarceration

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Eradicating Poverty

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Hate & Extremism

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International Advocacy

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LETTERS

Letter to Appropriators re FY25 Priorities (March 11, 2024)
Letter to Congress Urging Investments in Fiscal Year 2023 Senate and House Appropriations (Sept. 8, 2023)
Letter to Congress Urging Investments in Fiscal Year 2023 Senate and House Appropriations (March 30, 2023)
Letter to Congress on 118th Congress Policy Priorities (Feb. 21, 2023)

REPORTS

Report: Toward a Just and Equitable Future (April 3, 2024)

STATEMENTS & TESTIMONIES

SPLC Statement Submitted to House Oversight Committee on Ending Discrimination in U.S. Employment Practices (July 2024)
SPLC Statement Submitted to the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce (March 2024)

Hate & Extremism

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The federal policy work by the Southern Poverty Law Center includes administrative and legislative advocacy aimed at improving the lives of people in the South in the area of dismantling white nationalism and extremism. Below are letters, comments, testimony, reports and other SPLC Action Fund resources:

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Letters

Letter from Civil Rights Organizations Promoting Inclusive Response to All Forms of Hate (July 2024)
Letter to House Members Urging Support for H.R. 7648 Improving Reporting to Prevent Hate Act (June 2024)
Letter to Committee on Homeland Security correcting the hearing record (Nov. 15, 2023)
Letter to mayor of Chicago re outcome of the investigation into police officer (Jan. 5, 2023)
Letter to OMB re United We Stand (Dec. 5, 2022)
Letter to Director of White House Domestic Policy Council (Sept. 12, 2022)
Letter to Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin
Letter to President Biden re: Attorney Fred D. Gray (June 21, 2022)
Letter to Senate Foreign Relations Committee re Professor Deborah Lipstadt (Feb. 3, 2022)
Letter to House Veterans’ Affairs Committee re extremist groups’ recruitment of veterans (Oct. 11, 2021)

STATEMENTS & TESTIMONIES

Testimony to Congress on ‘Mostly Peaceful’ (May 15, 2023)
Statement to House Committee on Oversight and Reform re rising anti-LGBTQI+ extremism (Dec. 14, 2022)
Statement to Jan 6 Select Committee (Aug. 12, 2022)
Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee sharing expertise and recommendations for addressing political violence and intimidation
Statement for Jan 6 Select Committee re Proud Boys (April 8, 2022)
Statement to Jan 6 Select Committee re Nick Fuentes (April 7, 2022)
Statement for hearings on ‘Social Media Platforms and the Amplification of Domestic Extremism & Other Harmful Content’ (2021)
Statement for Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on ‘Confronting Violent White Supremacy’ (Sept. 2021)
Statement for Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties hearing on ‘Confronting Violent White Supremacy’ (May 2021)
Testimony to House subcommittee hearing on ‘Domestic Terrorist Financing in the Aftermath of Insurrection’ (Feb. 2021)
Statement to New York City Council for ‘Addressing Online Hate and Radicalization’ hearings (Nov. 2020)
Statement for House subcommittee hearing on militia extremists (July 2020)

Eradicating Poverty

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The federal policy work by the Southern Poverty Law Center includes administrative and legislative advocacy aimed at improving the lives of people in the South in the area of eradicating the root causes of poverty. Below are letters, comments, testimony, reports and other SPLC Action Fund resources:

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Cross-cutting

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Decriminalization & Decarceration

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Hate & Extremism

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Voting Rights

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International Advocacy

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LETTERS

Letter Urging Congress to Reject the Farm, Food, and National Security Act (Aug. 30, 2024)
Letter to Congress re: tax package, H.R. 7024, that expands the Child Tax Credit (July 31, 2024)
Letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee re: anti-DEIA provision FY25 NDAA (June 10, 2024)
Letter to Congress Opposing Anti-DEIA Riders (March 6, 2024)
Letter to Senate and House Committees on Farm Bill Priorities (July 28, 2023)
Letter Urging Congress to Pass a Debt Ceiling Deal (May 25, 2023)
Letter to Department of Treasury re Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and State of Mississippi (May 2, 2023)
Letter to Sen. Stabenow on Farm Bill Priorities (March 31,2023)

COMMENTS

Comment Re: Establishing the Summer EBT Program and Rural Non-Congregate Option in the Summer Meal Programs (Aug. 2024)
Comment on the Department of Transportation’s 2024 update to its Equity Action Plan (Aug. 14, 2024)
Comment to White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans
Comment to Department of Interior re Environmental Justice (Jan. 5, 2024)
Comment to the HHS Administration for Children and Families re TANF (Dec. 1, 2023)
Comment to Federal Housing Finance Agency regarding Tenant Protections ( July 31, 2023)

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