Congressional Visits

Our political team spent a couple of days last week making the rounds of key congressional offices to strategize, feel out the new political landscape, and push for action on ending the war in [...]

President Obama has taken promising steps toward improving US relations with Iran, from agreeing to participate in six party talks to recording a video message to Iranians on Persian New Year. I [...]

President Obama (it feels good to say that) came into office last week with a vast array of challenges facing him, the crumbling economic not least amongst them. Given the failures of the Bush [...]

Cara and I were in Washington, DC this week, joining people from Peace Action affiliates from around the country to bring our concerns directly to members of Congress and their staff. We spent [...]

Last week, we combined our efforts with the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability’s DC Days for a marathon of lobbying on nuclear weapons, the war in Iraq, diplomacy with Iran, and the US-India [...]

In this important election year, we’re asking Rep. Pelosi to push for more votes in the House on the war in Iraq to put members of Congress on record. On Tuesday, Peace Action West and other [...]

In a meeting with Rep. Tauscher’s staff on Monday, we were glad to hear that the House Armed Services Committee on which the representative sits may give little or no funding to the Reliable [...]