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Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Jared Huffman (CA-02), Mark Pocan (WI-02), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC), and Sean Casten (IL-06) sent a letter to Speaker Johnson to express concerns about funding for the National Prayer Breakfast from anti-LGBTQ+ extremists at the Fellowship Foundation and about the broader constitutional problem with institutionalizing a religious ceremony in the secular Capitol.
Official Title: Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025 (H.R. 833/S. 292)
Introduced by Reps. Adrian Smith (R-NE) and Burgess Owens (R-UT), and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
Executive Order 14191: Redirecting Public Schools Funds to Private Religious Education and Proselytizing
Official Title: Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families
Date Signed: January 29, 2025
Key Provisions:
Executive Order 14148: Repeals Religious Freedom Protections for People Using Social Services
Official Title: Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
Date Signed: January 20, 2025
Key Provisions:
Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, January 15 at 1pm ET, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the nomination of Russell Vought to serve as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Vought was a key architect of Project 2025, authoring the chapter that laid out a sweeping plan for OMB and the Executive Office of the President to consolidate unprecedented power over every executive branch department, agency, and program.
Official Title: Defense of Conscience in Healthcare Act (S. 47)
Introduced by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO)
This bill directs of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue a final rule that is identical or equivalent to the first Trump administration’s rule titled Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care; Delegations of Authority, which was scheduled to take effect on July 22, 2019, but was vacated by courts.
Religiously speaking, the incoming 118th Congress looks like America — that is, the America of decades past, rather than today.
Congress is far more Christian, and religious overall, than today’s general population.
Even though nearly three in 10 Americans claim no religious affiliation — a rate that has steadily risen in recent years — only two of the 534 incoming members of Congress publicly identify as such.
Official Title: Protecting Religious Freedom for Foster Families Act (HR 6133)
Introduced by Reps. Josh Brecheen (R-OK) and Mary Miller (R-IL)
Official Title: Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2023 (H.R.6485/S.3344)
Introduced by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)