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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. Tom Cole (R-OK) offered the amendment, which Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), a medical doctor and co-chair ...

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 is a red line. "It is probably the reddest of red lines," Rep. Cole said in an interview Thursday.

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 a new Mathematics Framework that urges schools to do away with accelerated math programs in order t...

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 that the Sacraments of Initiation have with one another,” Bishop Wall wrote in his Feb. 11 pastoral ...

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