Office of Government Relations
Big Step Forward for DREAMers- Let's say thanks!
Each year it is estimated that up to 65,000 undocumented students graduate from our schools into an uncertain future. These children speak English, have grown up in our school system and often […]
Speak Out for Clean Air
In late March, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new standards that would reduce harmful emissions from new power plants. Power plants are the single largest sources of carbon dioxide pollution […]
Fighting Stigma and Investing in the End of AIDS: A framework from the Presiding Bishop
This week, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori joined with Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and activists around the United States to proudly welcome […]
Speak Out Against Gender-Based Violence
In the gospel according to Matthew, Jesus, in the course of his public ministry, raises from the dead a young girl and heals an elderly woman; the old woman the […]
Call Today – Protect Safety for Native Women
VAWA is a landmark piece of legislation that seeks to improve the criminal justice response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. The passage of VAWA in 1994 […]
Do you remember the woman at the well?
Do you remember the woman at the well? Reflection and Action for International Women’s Day from the ELCA Washington Advocacy Office & the Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations March […]
A Faith Reflection on the Federal Budget
The federal budget is a moral document that reflects and shapes our country's priorities. Congress should craft it based on the needs of all. In Proverbs (31.9) we are reminded […]
Call Your Member TODAY and Tell them to Vote NO on Drilling in the Arctic!
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will debate and vote on H.R. 3408, the Protecting Investment in Oil Shale the Next Generation of Environmental, Energy, and Resource Security Act, which […]
EPPN urges protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
[Episcopal Public Policy Network] Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives will debate H.R. 7, the transportation reauthorization bill, which has attached to it H.R. 3407, the “Alaska Energy for […]
Help Make This Year the Beginning of the End of AIDS
World AIDS Day is this Thursday, December 1. This year, we celebrate the advances in medicine and technology that can end the devastating pandemic. We must press the United States […]
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