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  Share Source: Courtesy Photo from Office of Rep. Andy Harris The Hyde Amendment failed to make its way into the spending bill which advanced out of the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday. This is the first not to include the amendment, which protects taxpayers from having to fund elective abortions. Hyde has passed every year since 1976 with bipartisan support. The amendment failed 27-32, which all 26 Republican members and Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX) voted in favor of.  Rep. ...

Rep. Cole Strongly Opposes Exclusion Of Hyde, Weldon Amendments In Budget Bills The path to a fiscal year 2022 federal budget became much more complex, if not impossible, after the Democratic majority this week removed long-standing budget language preventing the use of tax dollars for abortions. Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole, (R) OK-4, is a respected voice of reason on Capitol Hill, but he said there’s no reasoning with him and other Republicans on removal of the Hyde Amendment. He said that...

If there’s one principle that should be a fixed star in America’s schools, it’s that educators should be expected to do all they can to help each student develop their gifts and fulfill their potential. This should serve as education’s version of medicine’s Hippocratic Oath. Regrettably, California has decided to push educators to violate that oath. In a well-meaning but hugely misguided effort to promote equity, the state’s Instructional Quality Commission earlier this year adopted...

Gallup, N.M., Feb 12, 2019 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop James Wall of Gallup has announced in a pastoral letter the restoration of the order of the sacraments of initiation in the mission diocese. Once the new policy is implemented, children will receive Confirmation and First Holy Communion in the same Mass, at around the age of 7 or 8. “Receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation long after the reception of Holy Communion, tends to weaken the understanding of the bond and relationship th...

What we can expect from America's first woke budget, brought to us by Xavier Becerra and Joe Biden.

Congress should reject calls in the Biden budget for removing important pro-life protections and for funding abortion here and abroad.

President Joe Biden released his budget proposal on May 28 as Americans headed into the long Memorial Day weekend. The “unreasonable and irresponsible” measure, as my Heritage Foundation colleague Matthew Dickerson described it, calls for dizzying amounts of spending across the federal government, paid for by American taxpayers. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

Biden budget plan to repeal the Hyde Amendment, a ban on most federal funding of...

Biden to propose restoration of federal funds for abortion By Bob Egelko President Biden’s new budget would restore federal funding for abortions for millions of low-income women, the first presidential spending plan in decades to propose discarding the 45-year-old Hyde Amendment. The proposal is unlikely to become law this year, with supporters facing filibuster barriers in the Senate. But reproductive-rights advocates — including a Bay Area lawmaker sponsoring legislation ...

The public comment period closed Monday for a rule proposed by the Biden administration that would roll back important provisions of the Trump administration’s 2019 “Protect Life” rule.