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  • Trump’s budget sacrifices diplomacy for bigger guns

    FCNL in the News | May 24, 2017

    “Theo Sitther, Legislative Secretary for Peacebuilding at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, told ThinkProgress he was worried about the impact this ‘heavily militarized’ budget would have on conflict resolution.”

  • What's the real value of U.S. foreign aid?

    FCNL in the News | May 22, 2017

    “According to the Friends Committee on National Legislation, prioritizing development would be 60 times less expensive than military intervention and the subsequent assistance required for helping nations rebuild in the aftermath.”

  • Minute Concerning the War in the Middle East: Baltimore Yearly Meetng

    Meeting Minute | January 7, 2025
    Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM) of the Religious Society of Friends Minute as to the ongoing U.S. military aid in the Israeli-Palestinian War

  • Statement to the House Judiciary Committee Pertaining to H.R. 1585, the “Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019."

    Letter | March 13, 2019

    The Friends Committee on National Legislation urges members of the House Judiciary Committee to support the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019 (H.R. 1585) and its effortsto address violence against Native women.

  • A Call to #LOVETHYNEIGHBOR (No Exceptions)

    FCNL in the News | February 23, 2017

    “The Friends Committee on National Legislation has a long history of speaking truth to power, and it continues to do so with what may well be the savviest and strongest response to all the threats posed by Donald Trump’s presidency.”

  • Minute on Policing

    Meeting Minute | January 5, 2021
    Minute addressing systemic racism and racists policing practices. Approved June 2020.

  • Powerful Beyond Measure: Trusting the Call to Leadership Exercising Our Citizenship

    Statement | June 12, 2020
    Assuming there may be people in this Meeting who might find dissonance between Quakerism and leadership, consider three key practices of both our faith and of leadership: listening, trusting, and acting.

  • PRESS ADVISORY: Faith Leaders Call for Diplomacy, Not War, With Iran

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    Washington, DC – On Tuesday, July 9, national faith leaders will convene on Capitol Hill to speak out against a morally and religiously indefensible war with Iran. Amid escalating tensions between the US and Iran, speakers will call on all Christian leaders, theologians, clergy, and laypersons to choose peace over more war. The speakers will also call on legislators to support an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to ensure the president cannot take unauthorized unilateral military action in or against Iran.

  • We Hold These Truths: Quakers in America

    Event | November 20, 2018
    Join FCNL Executive Secretary Diane Randall on Sunday, November 18 at We Hold These Truths: Quakers in America – a discussion of Mat Smart’s play The Agitators.

  • Quaker Lobby says Reject More Unchecked War Funding

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    In response to this week’s final agreement on the National Defense Authorization Act, Friends Committee on National Legislation’s Executive Secretary Diane Randall released the following statement: