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NAACP Supports Efforts to Increase Voter Registration and Turnout and To Ensure that Every Eligible American Can and Does Vote and That His or Her Vote is Counted
The NAACP Washington Bureau will work with NAACP state conferences and like-minded legislators to enact legislation to attain our voting goal in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and all US territories.
NAACP Supports Legislation to Address Racial Discrimination and Disparities in Criminal Justice Prosecutions
The NAACP supports the Justice Integrity Act (H.R. 1412 / S. 495) in the 111th Congress, introduced by Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN) and John Conyers (MI) and Senators Ben Cardin (MD) and Arlen Specter (PA) and calls for its speedy enactment.
NAACP Reiterates its Support for the Swift Enactment of the “Employee Free Choice” ACT
The NAACP strongly supports the Employee Free Choice Act and encourages the Congress and the President to work for its speedy enactment.
NAACP Support Court Supervised Loan Modifications for Families Facing Foreclosure
The NAACP supports legislative efforts, such as H.R. 200 and H.R. 1106, both offered by Congressman John Conyers (MI) and S.61, offered by Senator Richard Durbin (IL) which would allow bankruptcy judges to require loan modifications on mortgages when a homeowner is facing foreclosure.
NAACP Supports Smart, Sensible Legislation to Allow Communities to Develop Youth Anti-Crime Programs
The NAACP supports the Youth PROMISE Act and calls for its quick enactment.
NAACP Supports the ”National Criminal Justice Act of 2009”
The NAACP supports the need for a total overhaul of our nation's criminal justice system, and as such supports S. 714, the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009, and urges its swift enactment.
NAACP Supports Legislation to Ensure Accurate, Uniform High School Drop- Out Retention Reporting
The NAACP strongly supports the Every Student Counts Act and calls for its swift enactment.
Reaffirming the NAACP’s Commitment to Address the Problem of African- American Land Loss
The NAACP will urge Congress to enact the legislation to protect Americans from predatory lending such as the Home Ownership Bill (Senate Bill 2452) and the Foreclosure Prevention and Sound Mortgage Servicing Act (H.R. 5679). The NAACP will urge Congress to establish a nine month moratorium on foreclosures.
Racial Disparities in the United States Estuary Programs
All NAACP Units request a seat on each of the 28 Estuary Programs in the United States and other environmental, rural and urban, policy decision- making bodies related to environmental matters.
Subprime Lending Catastrophe
Federal Government provide assistance to these victims that have lost their life savings and homes through unscrupulous practices of financial money market manipulators.
Business Contracts and Federal Stimulus Funds
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People strongly request Barack Obama and U.S. Congress to eliminate racial disparities in business contracting opportunities through re-affirming minority business participation goals.
NAACP Supports the Community Reinvestment Act and Urges Congress to Modernize and Expand it
The NAACP continues to support the Community Reinvestment Act and calls on Congress and the Administration to expand and modernize the Act so that it is even more effective.