Pro-life advocates call on Trump, Congress to fully defund Planned Parenthood March 28, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News A coalition of pro-life groups went to the U.S. Capitol March 27 to urge Congress and President Donald Trump’s administration to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood, shortly before the Supreme Court is set to consider a case concerning that funding.
Trump touts ‘swift and unrelenting action’ on immigration, gender policy in speech to Congress March 5, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News President Donald Trump touted the “swift and unrelenting action” taken by his second administration in its first six weeks, telling lawmakers March 4 in an address to a joint session of Congress he was “just getting started.”
Catholic analysts express concern for safety net programs in budget process February 27, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News House Republicans Feb. 25 narrowly passed a budget resolution calling for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and a $2 trillion reduction in federal spending over a decade, clearing a first hurdle for key parts of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda.
Senators grill RFK Jr. on abortion, vaccine views in HHS confirmation hearings January 31, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News In a pair of January confirmation hearings, senators considered President Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health and Human Services.
Radio Interview: American politics and two-party dominance January 13, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, U.S. Congress As the United States prepares to swear in a new president, Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty takes a look at the state of politics and elections.
Republicans secure majority of U.S. House seats and expected to control U.S. Senate November 13, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News Republicans secured a majority of the U.S. House of Representatives, according to a Nov. 12 projection by data provider Decision Desk HQ, giving President-elect Donald Trump GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress as he begins his second term in January.
Harris backs ending filibuster for law to codify a national right to abortion September 25, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News In one of her strongest statements on restoring a national right to abortion as it existed under the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling of 1973, Vice President Kamala Harris has said she would support eliminating the filibuster in the U.S. Senate in order to bring back federal protections for a woman’s right to an abortion as they existed under Roe.
Bill to establish a right to IVF fails in Senate September 18, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News A bill that aimed to establish a right to in vitro fertilization failed on a procedural vote in the U.S. Senate Sept. 17.
Senate fails to advance bipartisan tax bill with poverty-fighting child tax credit August 2, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, U.S. Congress, World News The U.S. Senate on Aug. 1 failed to advance a bill that would have expanded the child tax credit, a provision some Catholic organizations have long sought as a pro-family and anti-poverty effort.
Senate passes major online child safety legislation, but future in House uncertain August 1, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, social media, U.S. Congress, World News The U.S. Senate passed two major online child safety reforms July 30, but the bills face an uncertain future in the House.
USCCB backs legislation that aims to help religious groups develop affordable housing July 30, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Social Justice, U.S. Congress Legislation under consideration in Congress would help faith-based organizations respond to a shortage in affordable housing by easing restrictions on the use of their land to develop affordable housing, supporters say.
CRS calls House version of foreign spending bill ‘inconsistent’ with U.S. ‘values, interests’ July 3, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Giving, News, U.S. Congress, World News Catholic Relief Services, the international relief and development agency of the Catholic Church in the U.S., criticized funding legislation recently passed by the U.S. House as “inconsistent with American values and interests” over cuts to humanitarian funding.
