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The U.S. government continues to pressure foreign nations to step in line with the lefts standards on certain issues.

February 4, 2021 The ERLC stands by our pro-life convictions in every sphere of cultural engagement. This includes our witness and advocacy to the federal government on issues Christians care about. One of our threshold questions for our team before supporting any piece of legislation is whether the bill protects and honors the value of every human life. Each year, Congress must pass twelve appropriations bills that fund the federal government. These bills are “must pass” pieces of legislat...

What just happened? On Thursday, President Biden issued a “Memorandum on Protecting Women’s Health at Home and Abroad.” The order overturns the “Mexico City Policy” and allows federal funds to be used to pay for abortions. What is the Mexico City Policy? The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 prohibits nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that receive federal funds from using those funds “to pay for the performance of abortions as a method of family planning, or to motivate or coerce an...

LANSING — President Donald Trump included a former Republican congressman from Michigan in the grants of clemency he handed out Wednesday.Trump pardoned Mark Siljander, who served time for charges related to work he did for an Islamic charity that federal authorities had linked to terrorist groups.Siljander, 69, who represented southwest Michigan from 1981 to 1987, pleaded guilty in 2010 to obstruction of justice and to acting as an unregistered foreign agent in federal court in Missouri,

LANSING — President Donald Trump included a former Republican congressman from Michigan in the grants of clemency he handed out Wednesday.Trump pardoned Mark Siljander, who served time for charges related to work he did for an Islamic charity that federal authorities had linked to terrorist groups.Siljander, 69, who represented southwest Michigan from 1981 to 1987, pleaded guilty in 2010 to obstruction of justice and to acting as an unregistered foreign agent in federal court in Missouri,

Ex-Michigan congressman among those pardoned by Trump Updated Dec 24, 2020; Posted Dec 24, 2020 Former U.S. Rep. Mark Siljander, who represented Southwest Michigan in the 1980s, is photographed outside of a Kansas City, Missouri, federal courthouse in 2010. (Associated Press file photo) Facebook Share KALAMAZOO, MI – Former Michigan Republican congressman Mark Siljander, who served a one-year prison sentence for obstruction of justice and acting as an unregistered foreign agent, has been pa...

Siljander served time for charges related to work he did for an Islamic charity that federal authorities had linked to terrorist groups.

Fred Upton stunned by Trump pardon for ex-Michigan congressman Katherine Doyle © Provided by Washington Examiner President Trumps eleventh-hour pardon of a former Michigan congressman accused of accepting stolen funds to lobby on behalf of an alleged terrorist fundraising ring has drawn rebuke from the districts current officeholder. Republican Rep. Fred Upton said he is "beyond disappointed" and "stunned" by the pardon for Mark Siljander, who was indicted on federal charges o...

He faced charges related to work for Islamic charity that feds linked to terrorist groups. Siljander sentenced to a year in prison for obstruction of justice, failing to register as foreign agent His is one of dozens of pardons and commutations Trump has issued in last days in office YouTube Mark Siljander served time in prison on charges related to work for an Islamic charity that federal offcials linked to terrorist groups. President Donald Trump has pardoned a former Republican congressman ...

Former Michigan Congressman Pardoned By President Trump Patch 12/24/2020 Joey Oliver © AP Photo/Patrick Semansky President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday. MICHIGAN — A former Michigan congressman who was convicted of obstructing justice and failing to register as a foreign agent was among 29 people granted pardons or clemency on Wednesday by President Donald Trump. Trump granted a full pardon to Mark Siljander, 69,...