What is going on with the Speaker of the House?
For the latest updates on the Speaker’s race, click here. 10/20 Evening update: After a third defeat on the House floor, the House Republican conference voted to drop Rep. Jim Jordan as its speaker nominee. The conference is expected to meet on Monday to select a new nominee. 10/20 Morning update: The House is expected […]
Looking Forward to Serving You
My name is Maggie McKneely and I am excited to join the Concerned Women for America (CWA) team as a Legislative Strategist. CWA’s bold adherence to Biblical truths and willingness to fight for them is refreshing in a city that seduces so many to conform to this world. It’s an organization I’m proud to represent. […]
“Forcing Behaviors” With the Help of ESG
Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) is combatting the recent trend of using the financial industry as a tool to advance policies that undermine our core values, otherwise known as “environmental, social, governance” scores (ESG). Learn more about the problems with ESG HERE. ESG is being pitched by supporters as a mere source […]
Is “E” for Environmental or Empire?
Action item at the end of the story. The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) movement is a phenomenon that pervades the global financial sector and is exposing the U.S. to encroachments on our national sovereignty. The House Republican ESG Working Group—led by Rep. Bill Huizenga (Michigan-04)—released a report outlining concerns about ESG in the American […]
Breaking: Car-Crash and Brain-Disease Research Reveal Only Two Sexes
Article written by Alexandra McPhee and Morgan Haddock Do you know the sex of the crash test dummy that safety tested your car? How about the rat in the clinical trials for the latest research in brain disease? Radical gender ideology may demand that we ask their pronouns. But matters ranging from automotive safety to […]
A Synopsis: Contraception v. Abortion
Synopsis: What’s the difference between contraception and abortion? Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee does not get involved in policy concerning contraception. But there can be confusion about what contraception means, especially when the U.S. Food & Drug Administration defines it to include methods that terminate developing life in the womb. Check out our […]
What Are The Model Policies to Tackle ESG?
At Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, we encourage governmental action—federal or state—that counters the harmful Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) agenda. In short, ESG is a metric system being used by actors in the private sector to bring about ends like blacklisting pro-life elected officials, discouraging business in states with pro-life laws, pressuring […]
Thank Sen. Tommy Tuberville for Standing for the Unborn
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) prefers being called Coach rather than Senator. This is largely because he is not a career politician and never planned on becoming one. Before being a senator, he was a football coach. In fact, he had been named “Coach of the Year” multiple times and ultimately retired in 2016 as one […]
Support the Women’s Bill of Rights
We live in a world where the God-designed distinctions between the sexes are undermined and under attack. To fight back, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) is supporting the Women’s Bill of Rights. The Women’s Bill of Rights resolution* is a definitive statement on the definition of sex and the legal protections women […]
Lessons from the Irish Pro-life Movement
Concerned Women for America (CWA) met with Irish pro-life activists to discuss advancing the cause for the sanctity of life. It was Saint Patrick’s Day, and our new friends from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were visiting the United States as they have done for the last decade. We learned about their ongoing […]
Protecting Our Kids Online Must Be A Top Priority
A recent survey found that teenagers spend eight hours and 39 minutes a day on screens while tweens spend five hours and 44 minutes a day on screens. This becomes even more disconcerting knowing that the average teen in America sleeps only around 7 hours a night. American teenagers spend more time on their cellphones than sleeping; that is […]
Parents Deserve Public School Transparency
There has been an increase in recent years of parents raising their concerns in school board meetings across the nation. Their concerns range from radical gender and racial curriculum to boys being able to use girls’ restrooms, but they all share the common thread of public schools usurping the parent’s responsibility of raising their children. […]
Marijuana Mania
It seems that marijuana legalization has been a litmus test for the modern Democrat political candidate. For a long time, marijuana was an issue to avoid, but now many politicians will share jovial stories about their marijuana history. Take, for example, Vice President Kamala Harris, who said, “I think [marijuana] gives a lot of people […]
Protecting Our Financial Future from ESG
Protecting Our Financial Future from ESG“No one wants to work for decades only to scrape by.” Kate Spitz is Associate Counsel at the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), a nonprofit public interest law firm. At WILL, Kate defends Americans from executive overreach and seeks to protect their First Amendment freedoms and parental […]
Corporate Social Activism at the Expense of Human Rights?
These days it seems rare that Congressional Democrats and Republicans can agree on any contentious issue, but thankfully the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) unites most members. Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) attended the Select Committee on The Chinese Communist Party’s hearing “The Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Uyghur Genocide” in late March. The […]
Check Out Your Member’s Score for the 117th Congress!
Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee identified a series of key votes for the 117th Congress (January 2021 – December 2022), reflecting positions on CWA’s core issues and the values of the hundreds of thousands of citizens we represent across the country. This scorecard serves as a measure of a member’s stance on critical […]
Protecting Free Speech on College Campuses
On Wednesday, March 28, 2023, the Young Women for America (YWA) team attended the U.S. House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development’s Hearing on “Diversity of Thought: Protecting Free Speech on College Campuses.” At YWA, we know that free speech is a Constitutional right as it is declared in the First Amendment, “Congress shall […]
Congress Considers Election Observers
The next round of elections is November 2023. Several votes are coming up that some believe will offer a forecast of political fortunes. While a few months away, it is timely to consider opportunities for improvement to election integrity. This past week, the Subcommittee on Elections for the U.S. Committee on House Administration held an […]
Biden Administration Takes Aim at Faith-based College Clubs
Hostility towards religion in the American public sphere has grown immensely over the past decade. Christians have been bullied into silence and some even believe there is no place for their opinion in the public square. Unfortunately, due to these bullying tactics some Christians have almost voluntarily taken themselves out of the public square, believing […]
Soft on Crime Efforts Always Hurt Women
There are few things harder to hear than a woman sharing her experience of being sexually assaulted or raped. Where there is room to be grateful that we live in the United States where women can call for help and for justice to be restored, the horrors of sexual assault still exist and need to […]