Admittedly off-topic, but begging your indulgence this one time. Hoping some NLC organizations will consider adding their name as an endorser of this bill.  I see at least one member of NCL already on the list! Jeff From: Holbrook, Trent [mailto:mailto:Trent.Holbrook@mail.house.gov]  Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 10:00 AM To: Holbrook, Trent Subject: Endorsing D.C. Statehood Bill? - 109 organizations endorsing   I wanted to follow up to our previous emails about your organization endorsing Congresswoman Norton’s D.C. statehood bill (H.R. 51).  We have continued to get more cosponsors and endorsers of the bill since I last emailed.  We now have 109 organizations (including 94 national ones) that have endorsed the bill (below), and we are up to 216 cosponsors in the House and 33 in the Senate – records for both Chambers.  Also, the Oversight Committee will be holding a hearing on H.R. 51 on September 19.  Can we list your organization as endorsing as well?  Please let me know if you have any questions.   Thank you, Trent   Endorsers (109): ACLU; ACLU-DC; Advocates for Youth; AFGE, AFL-CIO; AIDS United; Alliance for Justice; American Ethical Union; American Federation of Teachers; Americans for Democratic Action; Anacostia Coordinating Council; Bend the Arc; Brady; California League of Conservation Voters; Campaign Legal Center; Catholics for Choice; Center for Biological Diversity; Center for Environmental Health; Center for Law & Social Policy; Center for Study of Responsive Law; Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW); Coalition to Stop Gun Violence; Common Cause; Conference of Major Superiors of Men; CREDO; DC Appleseed; DC Chamber of Commerce; D.C. Marijuana Justice; D.C. Statehood – Yes We Can!; DC Vote; Demand Justice; Demand Progress; Democracy 21; Democracy for America; Demos; Drug Policy Alliance; End Citizens United Action Fund; Food & Water Watch; Free Speech For People; Friends Committee on National Legislation; Friends of the Earth; Greater Washington Urban League; Greenpeace US; Human Rights Campaign; In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda; Indivisible; International Assoc. of Machinists & Aerospace Workers; Jews United for Justice; Just Foreign Policy; The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; League of Conservation Voters; League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia; League of Women Voters of the United States; Let America Vote; March For Our Lives; March For Our Lives DC; MAYDAY America; MomsRising; MoveOn; NAACP; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.; NARAL Pro-Choice America; National Abortion Federation; National Action Network; National Active and Retired Federal Employees Assoc.; National Center or Lesbian Rights; National Community Reinvestment Coalition; National Congress of Black Women; National Council of Jewish Women; National Education Association; National Employment Law Project; National Fair Housing Alliance; National LGBT Chamber of Commerce; National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund; National Partnership for Women and Families; National Urban League; National Women’s Law Center; Neighbors United for DC Statehood; NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice; New Progressive Alliance; NORML; NTEU; People Demanding Action; People for the American Way; Physicians for Reproductive Health; Planned Parenthood Federation of America; Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington; Pride at Work; Progressive Democrats of America; Psychologists for Social Responsibility; Public Citizen; Public Justice Center; SEIU, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS); Sierra Club; Small Planet Institute; Stand Up America; Stand Up! for Democracy in DC (Free DC); Students for D.C. Statehood; The D.C. Statehood Coalition; The Democracy Initiative; The Democratic Coalition; The National Black Law Students Association; Union of Concerned Scientists; Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity (URGE); UNITE HERE; United Food and Commercial Workers; Washington Ethical Society; and 51 for 51       -- Trent Holbrook Legislative Counsel Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton 2136 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone: (202) 225-8050 mailto:Trent.Holbrook@mail.house.gov Jeff Carter Cell: (202) 374-4387 | @jeffcrtr Executive Director Physicians for Social Responsibility 1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005 http://www.psr.org/mailto:jcarter@psr.org Senior Policy Advisor to the Board of Directors, National Coalition for Literacy Immediate Past President,  Committee for Education Funding http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/  | cef.org mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org