U.S. Congress Archives

Puerto Rico’s archbishop asks Congress for relief over debt crisis
- Church in the US
- August 3, 2017
Archbishop Roberto González Nieves of San Juan and Reverend Heriberto Martínez-Rivera, the Secretary General of Puerto Rico’s Bible Society, have written the U.S. Congress stating the territory’s economic crisis “continues to affect all of Puerto Rico’s people, in particular the poor and our children.”
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Health care laws must begin and end with human person, bishop says
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- July 31, 2017
Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, said the bishops remain hopeful that the U.S. congress can come together and reform healthcare in a way that ensures it remains accessible and affordable as well as protect all human life.
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U.S. bishops call for permanent protection for young migrants
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- July 22, 2017
Bishop Joe S. Vasquez, chair of the migration committee of the USCCB, wrote a statement urging the Trump administration and members of the U.S. Congress to “ensure permanent protection” for the estimated 750,000 youth in the DACA program, also known as DREAMERS, who otherwise risk deportation.
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Bishop: Budget ‘moral document’; House bill puts poor in ‘real jeopardy’

“The USCCB is monitoring the budget and appropriations process in Congress very carefully, and is analyzing the proposed House budget resolution in more detail,” said Bishop Frank J. Dewane, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.

Trump tells Evangelicals, ‘It’s time to put a stop to attacks on religion’

Trump is president in no small measure because he “focused like a laser beam on winning the support of evangelical voters and people of faith,” Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, told the audience before Trump’s speech.

House praised for passing bill to help ISIS genocide victims

The United States House of Representatives has passed a bipartisan bill, the “Iraq and Syria Genocide Emergency Relief and Accountability Act of 2017.” The proposed law would provide help and hope to suffering members of religious minorities in Iraq and Syria who have been “left out and left behind.”