The U.S. House of Representatives passed an appropriations bill July 31 that blocks the conscience protection rule for health care providers.
U.S. House appropriations measure blocks conscience protection rule
Dismissal of Catholic House of Representatives chaplain sparks outrage
The apparent forced resignation of the chaplain who tends to the spiritual needs of the U.S. House of Representatives and is Catholic has drawn fire against the Speaker of the House, who also is Catholic.
U.S. bishops’ committee chairman: Fix flaws in American Health Care Act
The American Health Care Act that passed by a four-vote margin May 4 in the House has “major defects,” said Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Social Development.