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Policy Work: Democracy Reform

We use our team’s deep expertise to craft policy and intervene in debates to serve the interests of people, not entrenched power.

Demand Progress Action Coalition Calls upon the Senate to Remove Internet Censorship Provision from the NDAA

Demand Progress Action Letter to House Urging “No” Vote on NDAA due to “Judicial Security and Privacy” Provision that Undermines Court Ethics & Accountability

Demand Progress Coalition Letter Urging the House to enact Congressional Staff Overtime Regulations

Demand Progress Coalition Letter Urging the Senate to Enact Congressional Staff Overtime Regulations

Demand Progress and Lincoln Network Issue Bipartisan House Rules Recommendations Calling for Rebalancing Power in the 118th Congress

Demand Progress Action Leads Coalition Supporting inclusion of the OLC Transparency Amendment (S. Amdt. 6246) in the final bicameral National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (H.R. 7900)

Coalition Letter Urges Congressional Leaders to Prevent a Return of Schedule F

Union Organizing Rights on Capitol Hill

Thank You Letter to House Appropriator for Including Key Modernization Items in the FY 2023 House Legislative Branch Appropriation Bill and Report

Thank You Letter to House Select Committee Modernization Congratulating Them on the Nearly Two-Dozen Modernization-Related Items Included in the FY 2023 House Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill and Report

Letter Calling on Senate Leadership to Increase Staff Pay Floor to $45,000

FY 2023 Testimony Concerning the Creation of an Office of Diversity and Inclusion in the Senate; Prepared by Demand Progress, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), and the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, for the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee for FY 2023

Creating a House Intern Resource Office — Taylor J. Swift Testimony Before House Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee for FY 2023

Groups Thank House of Representatives Members for Voting to Allow Congressional Staff the Right to Organize

30 Groups Write to Speaker Pelosi in Support of the Speaker Pay Order on Staff Pay Floor

Groups Send Bipartisan Letter to Senate Leadership Urging Passage of the Periodically Listing Updates to Management Act (The PLUM Act, S.3650)

Groups Send Letter to House Judiciary Committee Opposing H. R. 6769, the Pro Codes Act

Demand Progress FY 2023 Appropriations Requests

Letter Signed by 78 Organizations and 24 Individuals Urges House Leadership to Adopt the Resolution Allowing House Staff to Unionize

Testimony Concerning Oversight of the January 6th Capitol Attack: Ongoing Review of the USCP IG Flash Reports (Daniel Schuman Before the Committee on House Administration)