{"id":1221,"date":"2025-10-18T20:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:50:39","slug":"congressional-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/2025\/10\/18\/congressional-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 data-start=\"279\" data-end=\"317\">What is NARFE\u2019s advocacy network?<\/h4>\n<p><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"41\">Congressional District Leaders (CDLs)<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"46\" data-end=\"74\">Senatorial Leaders (SLs)<\/strong> are key volunteer advocates within NARFE\u2019s grassroots legislative network. They serve as the primary liaisons between NARFE members and their elected officials in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Two key volunteer roles in that network are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Congressional District Leader <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>(CDL)<\/strong>:<\/span> focus on NARFE\u2019s relationship with <strong>House members<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Senatorial Leader <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">(SL):<\/span><\/strong> focus on <strong>Senators<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"715\" data-end=\"989\">These roles serve as NARFE\u2019s \u201con the ground\u201d advocacy links in their local\/federal legislative districts, both ensuring that NARFE\u2019s voice is heard in Congress through local engagement, communication, and legislative follow-up.\u00a0 Reach out to your local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/about-us\/congressional-leaders\/\"><strong>representative today<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE mobilizes its members not only through national-level lobbying and outreach, but also through a grassroots network of volunteers assigned to specific geographic and legislative jurisdictions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2025\/10\/flag-building.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}