The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) applauds the 47 senators who voted Tuesday to require the State Department to report on the killings of Americans in the West Bank. Since 2022, at ...

In a historic vote this week, more senators than ever before supported legislation seeking to hold the Israeli government accountable for violence and human rights violations against Palestinians. In ...

Our new spring lobbying conference: Friends Changemaker Weekend (FCW) was a great success! Hundreds of advocates from across generations and across the U.S. gathered in DC to lobby Congress for no ...

As faith communities across the United States, we write to urge you to reject President Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget for Fiscal Year 2027. Our traditions are united by a shared moral ...

Peggy Flanagan, an enrolled citizen of the White Earth Nation and Minnesota’s current Lieutenant Governor, won the Democratic primary to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Senator ...

It’s important work, and FCNL runs programs all over the country to train people how to advocate with Congress. But it can be lonely work sometimes. That’s why getting all of our community together in ...

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leadership released the bipartisan H.R. 9497 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2026. Congress has typically passed a WRDA bill every two ...

President Trump recently mused about “taking” Cuba for himself: “It may be a friendly takeover, it may not be a friendly takeover… It wouldn’t matter because they’re really, they’re down to, as I say, ...

This week, protests at the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center in New Jersey put a national spotlight on the inhumane conditions and abuses people are facing in ICE custody. About 300 detainees ...

Congress marked May 5, 2026, as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) with both chambers introducing bipartisan resolutions. In the House, Rep.

In December 2025, President Trump signed the annual military policy bill into law. The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026 authorized the Selective Service System to automatically ...