Pro Brennan Center for Social Justice (2019). Brennan Center Calls for Fundamental Reform of the National Emergencies Act of 1976 (2019) As a bipartisan group of organizations, all of which work to safeguard and strengthen our democratic institutions, we write to urge you to enact fundamental reform of the National Emergencies Act of 1976 (NEA). Such reform is critical to preventing future abuses of emergency powers that could be disastrous