The Brennan Center and 13 immigrant advocacy and legal aid programs filed public comments on DHS guidelines for federally funded entities that assist and administer limited English proficient (LEP) individuals in their contact with police and motor vehicle departments, detention centers and more.

The modern filibuster devalues the Senate, disrupts Congress, and threatens to derail our government. This testimony, submitted to the Senate Rules Committee, elaborates.

The DISCLOSE Act closes longstanding loopholes that have permitted veiled political actors to escape full transparency. We urge Congress to pass this legislation as quickly as possible in order to ensure the source of corporate money in the upcoming election is fully self-evident.

On April 23, 2010, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy provided testimony for the New York Senate Elections Committee on the impact Citizens United may have on New York’s elections. The testimony states that Citizens United is an invitation to make New York’s already bad campaign finance system even worse, but that there are fixes that the State can adopt to blunt the impact of Citizens United as well as fixing long standing problems with the ways that campaigns are funded in New York.