Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 22, 2013 Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill The Republican House leadership has turned to its ultra-conservative, anti-woman playbook yet again to block passage of an inclusive, bipartisan version of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The new House bill purposely excludes LGBT survivors and even rolls back[Read More…]

SB 134 violates women’s constitutionally protected rights, bans abortion at 12 weeks of pregnancy Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 22, 2013.  Yesterday the Arkansas House of Representatives approved an amended version of SB 134, a measure banning all abortions at 12 weeks of pregnancy with only narrow exceptions in cases of rape, incest,[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 22, 2013. The United States will always be a nation of immigrants who have contributed greatly to the vitality, diversity, and creativity of American life.  Yet, like the rest of America’s immigration system, the mechanisms for evaluating our labor market needs and admitting foreign workers – as well as[Read More…]

White House Sits On Clean Water Act Guidance To Restore Protections to Waters of the United States Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2013. In April 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a policy to help restore Clean Water Act protections to waters across the country and to return common-sense safeguards to[Read More…]

Washington–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. Statement of AFT President Randi Weingarten on the recently released report of the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity and Excellence Commission, “For Each and Every Child: A Strategy for Education Equity and Excellence.” The Equity and Excellence Commission was mandated by Congress to provide advice to Education[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. Cynthia G. Brown, Vice President for Education Policy at the Center for American Progress, issued the following reaction to the Department of Education’s Equity and Excellence Commission’s final report, presented today to Education Secretary Arne Duncan: The Equity and Excellence Commission’s report reflects the collective wisdom[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. The following is a statement from Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt: “The Campaign to Fix the Debt is pleased that Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have released a fiscal framework that[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. “Once again, Bowles and Simpson have produced a plan that tells working people to “drop dead.”  In December 2010, Bowles and Simpson put forward a budget blueprint that proposed to cut tax rates for corporations and the richest Americans and eliminate taxes on overseas corporate profits,[Read More…]

Planned Parenthood: Data Underscores Importance of Affordable Care Act’s Birth Control Benefit WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 15, 2013. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this morning released the results of the agency’s first publication ever on the use of emergency contraception in the United States, which shows that the usage is[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 14, 2013. The first bipartisan legislation to regulate the government use of unmanned drones in the United States was introduced in the House yesterday. The American Civil Liberties Union supports the bill, which is sponsored by Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. “Unmanned drones must not[Read More…]