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Congress is back in session after a long recess. The March for Life just happened. And with the election coming up, it’s a good time to remind folks who in Congress has done more than just say that they are pro-life. To see whether or not your lawmakers have voted for pro-life bills, check out National Right to Life Committee’s (NRLC) excellent scorecards. Or take a look at  CitizenLink’s scorecard, which we publish jointly with the Family Research Council. (Ours is a compilation of more than just pro-life votes.)  Read more

Congress may be in its last week of business for 2011. So, part of its work this week will be choosing whether or not to support family values in the 9 spending bills it has left to pass for FY2012. With time running out, Congress may negotiate and package those 9 spending bills into one bill called an omnibus (read: a big, fat bill with two or more spending bills included) and then pass the omnibus before week’s end (the temporary measure to fund the government expires this Friday).  Read more

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It may not be on your radar screen, but it should be. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) will lose government funding and shut its doors if Congress doesn’t act by mid-December (the original deadline was this Friday). CitizenLink told you about it here, here and here. Bottom line: The House already passed a bill to reauthorize the Commission, and now the Senate is holding it up.  Read more

It’s no secret that the definition of marriage is under attack all around the country. Is there anything you can do?  Read more

I hate having to write this blog today.  Read more

Even though the presidential election is over a year away, most of the news is taken with Republican hopefuls right now. Which makes it hard to remember that Congress still has business to do. {Well, until Harry Reid shakes things up a bit like he did yesterday}. Warning: you may lose consciousness in a sea of procedural jargon about a “nuclear option” and other Senate Swahili that nobody understands.  Read more

A bit of good news.  Congress passed and the president signed a law (the America Invents Act, H.R. 1249) that includes an important, but not well-known, pro-life provision called the Weldon Amendment. The amendment prevents the U.S. Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) from issuing patents that are “directed to or encompassing a human organism.”  Read more

In September 2009, the Nashville City Council passed an “anti-discrimination” ordinance banning any company from doing business with the city if it had a policy of not hiring homosexuals or those who claim a different “gender identity.”  That means any business in Nashville that morally objected to the practice of homosexuality could no longer contract with the city — unless it changed its entire hiring policy to comply with the ordinance.  Read more

It’s true.  We might actually see a pro-life move originating in the Senate instead of the House. Looks like Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Orrin (Hatch (R-Utah) are planning to introduce a bill known as the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA) as soon as they secure more original cosponsors. The bill, which isn’t a new idea — it received its biggest push in 2006 when both chambers voted to pass portions of the bill — would make it illegal to take a minor across state lines to receive an abortion, in order to circumvent the parental involvement law of the home state.  Read more