{"id":1355,"date":"2026-05-09T04:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:44:03","slug":"call-for-proposals-for-changes-to-narfe-advocacy-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/2026\/05\/09\/call-for-proposals-for-changes-to-narfe-advocacy-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Proposals for Changes to NARFE Advocacy Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE publishes a list of Advocacy Positions for each session of the United States Congress. The current list for the 119th Session of Congress 2025-2026 may be found at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.narfe.org_wp-2Dcontent_uploads_2025_08_Advocacy-2DPositions-2D2025-2D26-2Dsts.pdf&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=tHUuckjhahmywZLwnY9yu0FI0I5bpzaZUCBv-bVMAGQ&amp;m=GtV5FNx31Y_tqCAPx52_5Sf-2SzVKoZNb2CKE352hVa9A1ZPV_brus5ufFkWbW1o&amp;s=6jWRtS-2y5lss-5LSckG5g5ZwDr9gntJkVjbWB3Sh0g&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Advocacy-Positions-2025-26-sts.pdf.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0This list guides NARFE\u2019s leadership and staff regarding whether to support a position\u2014or not\u2013when actions are taken by Congress or the administration.<\/p>\n<p>Currently NARFE is calling for members, Chapters and Federations to review the current list of positions and propose changes to incorporate in an updated list of advocacy positions for the upcoming 120th Session of Congress 2027-2028. <strong>Proposals for change are due to NARFE Headquarters by June 1.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NARFE\u2019s process for submitting advocacy policy changes may be found at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.narfe.org_narfes-2Dadvocacy-2Dpositions-2Dfor-2Dthe-2D120th-2Dcongress-2Dproposal-2Dprocess_-3F-5Fzs-3DDmbfm-26-5Fzl-3DHice3&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=tHUuckjhahmywZLwnY9yu0FI0I5bpzaZUCBv-bVMAGQ&amp;m=GtV5FNx31Y_tqCAPx52_5Sf-2SzVKoZNb2CKE352hVa9A1ZPV_brus5ufFkWbW1o&amp;s=BI4xucpIPBuIU6jcF_VyTBVyBGl0FtKaUgd3oDk1OVA&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NARFE\u2019s Advocacy Positions for the 120th Congress Proposal Process \u2013 NARFE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To see change proposals already being made, see FEDHUB:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__fedhub.narfe.org_communities_community-2Dhome-3FCommunityKey-3D94404de6-2Df21c-2D4e32-2D9a29-2D019c34204c24&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=tHUuckjhahmywZLwnY9yu0FI0I5bpzaZUCBv-bVMAGQ&amp;m=GtV5FNx31Y_tqCAPx52_5Sf-2SzVKoZNb2CKE352hVa9A1ZPV_brus5ufFkWbW1o&amp;s=yfj1LnzOQRTovfyLaG0izhU0HeYmD9gAGd33QMrpDBg&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Advocacy Positions for the 120th Congress \u2013 FEDHub<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All NARFE members and Chapters are encouraged to consider submitting ideas for changes to NARFE Advocacy Positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE is calling for NARFE members, Chapters and Federations to review the current list of positions and propose changes to incorporate in an updated list of advocacy positions for the upcoming 120th Session of Congress 2027-2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2026\/05\/graphic-advocacy-us-capitol.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}