Get on Email List: Virginia AAUW maintains a mailing list for disseminating information of interest to AAUW members about legislation and other pertinent issues.  If you are not already on the list and would like to be, please send your email address with the request to be included to:  policy@aauwofva.org

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VA General Assembly in Action Tracking Legislation If you want more information about a bill's history, click below to link to the General Assembly, and once you get there, click on Legislative Information Services, and then click on Bills and Resolutions. A screen should come up with a box where you fill in the specific bill number, e.g. HB 1234. You then press enter and are transported to a legislative history of the bill with links to its complete content. Note, in the case of resolutions, i.e. HJR and SJR, just use HJ and SJ before the number. The system won't accept three letters.

Federal Public Policy

Virginia AAUW makes extensive use of its Public Policy Phone Tree and E-mail Alerts to contact branch public policy chairs and other branch members in all eleven of Virginia's Congressional Districts.  Another Virginia AAUW federal public policy project is its tri-state Federal Lobby Day, begun years ago by Virginia member Dr. Nancy Joyner and now carried out jointly with Maryland and Delaware and is sponsored by tri-state Members of Congress.

    Bill of Rights Coalition 
         (concerned with correcting the most dangerous provisions of the Patriot Act )

Here are some current AAUW Federal Policy interests: Civil Rights     Education     Managed Care     Welfare   Family and Medical Leave     Pay Equity  Social Security/Medicare Reform      Reproductive Rights Recent Action Network Activities

How Can You be a Part of AAUW's Efforts to Further its Public Policy Issues?

     Learn how you can take an active part  in directly affecting legislation at  
AAUW Lobby Corps and Capitol Hill Basics.

     Subscribe to Action Alert 
Action Alert provides detailed updates on how AAUW's priority issues are faring in Congress. Each month, you'll receive four pages of information on issues such as education, managed care reform, reproductive choice, Social Security and Medicare reform and civil rights.

     Take Action through the Two-Minute Activist - It takes only two minutes to make your voice heard in Congress - one minute to read, one minute to act! First, take one minute to read about the latest issue in Congress. Then, take one more minute to personalize a pre-written AAUW message and e-mail it to your member of Congress.

     Additional links:

Thomas -- Library of Congress   Congressional Voting Records Virginia Congressional Delegation

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