Greetings from M Street!

The 2005 Council is already in our memory books, but the stimulating energy of the 132 League leaders who gathered in Washington, DC, in June has not dissipated. In fact, the national office is energized as we enter the fall season with a full plate of activities.

Information on all our activities and much more is now available on our new Web site. Please be sure to visit www.lwv.org and take a look!

In this regard, we urge our members to send us their e-mail addresses. In order to enter the Member section of the new Web site, you will need to log in, a procedure that requires the use of your e-mail address as your personal identifier. If we do not have your current e-mail address in our system, please send it to us. One easy way is by filling out the form (name, address, e-mail address) on the flap of the "Business Reply Envelope" insert in this Voter issue, and returning it to us. The LWVUS does not sell or exchange e-mail addresses and most members receive only one to four e-mails each month. For more information on the Web site and the log-in procedure, read the Good Bytes column.

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In this issue of The National Voter you will learn about the many impressive efforts underway here at M Street over the last few months. Those include our busy legislative activities (see Hill Bulletin and the Advocacy section of League Matters) and our numerous Education Fund projects (also in League Matters).

Among the latter is the successful project on "Local Voices: Citizen Conversations on Civil Liberties and Secure Communities," conducted by Leagues around the country in the spring. A report on the findings of this project was submitted recently to members of Congress. As for upcoming projects, you will learn about new international exchanges with women from Kenya and Russia beginning this fall.

Finally, we are pleased to introduce you to our hardworking LWVUS Lobby Corps.