FCNL Priorities for the 118th Congress (2023-2024)

Where are Friends called to focus their congressional advocacy work in 2023 and 2024?

Please enter the results discerned by your group for FCNL's legislative priorities for the 118th Congress (2023-2024)! Please limit your submitted priorities to 30 words each. For each of your submitted priorities, please include a reference to a specific section of The World We Seek: Statement of Legislative Policy using the drop-down menu below each priorities textbox. We are not asking you to rank your submitted priorities. The order in which you list your priorities does not reflect their comparative importance.

The person who fills out this form should be the designated contact person for purposes of this priorities process. Please share this Priorities Process Guestbook with those who participated in your group's discernment.

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Group information

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Number of participants 21-40

Number of participants 41-60

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Priorities Submission: What are your group's top priorities?

We ask for a limit of seven priorities expressed in no more than 30 words each. Please use the fields below to clearly and concisely tell us your group's concerns. These will guide our work together, during the next Congressional session, starting in 2023. Please direct committee members to specific sections of the World We Seek (2019) supporting your priority by selecting a citation such as "II.3 Communities Free of Violence" from the drop down menu below each priority textbox.

Priority 1

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Priority 2

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Priority 3

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Priority 4

Priority 4: Section Reference

Priority 5

Priority 5: Section Reference

Priority 6

Priority 6: Section Reference

Priority 7

Priority 7: Section Reference

Additional comments

We are only looking for up to 7 priorities from each group that responds. We understand that this is difficult and therefore we leave this space for additional comments.

Comments

Please let us know if you have any comments about this method of gathering your ideas.