Federal Issues Update (6/12/18)

"As the respective chairmen of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth, and the Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, we write in strong support of your bill, H.R. 2028, the Healthy Relationships Act of 2017" (Archbishop Chaput and Bishop Conley, 10/4/17).

USCCB's Action Center

• Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act: Contact your Representative and Senators today!
• First Amendment Defense Act - Support Now!

USCCB's and CRS' Catholics Confront Global Poverty / Action Center 

[We can ensure safety for impoverished people and refugees, as well as their host communities.  As our noble efforts at assistance must not be hijacked, this blogger believes that our communications MUST specifically state that contraceptives/abortifacients MUST be excluded from "assistance."]
• Raise your voice to prevent and end hunger.
• Support Refugee and Migrant Families
• Use Your Voice to Combat Human Trafficking
• Urge Our Nation to Care for our Common Home

USCCB's Justice for Immigrants' Action Alerts

[We can ensure safety for impoverished people and refugees, as well as their host communities.  As our noble efforts at assistance must not be hijacked, this blogger believes that our communications MUST specifically state that contraceptives/abortifacients MUST be excluded from "assistance."]
• Protect immigrant children and families seeking safety and shelter from violence by keeping these families together
• Ask Representatives to Support HR 4796, the USA Act of 2018, and HR 3440, the DREAM Act of 2017; AND Moving Legislation Forward to a Vote in the House

Pa Catholic Conference's Current Alerts
(one federal)

• Reauthorize CHIP 

NJ Catholic Conference

(one federal)

• Ask Congress to pass the Dream Act of 2017

Human Life Action Action Alerts

Current Action Alerts

•  Express Disappointment to Congress About Its Failure to Enact the Conscience Protection Act
• Assisted Suicide is Not Healthcare

Previous Action Alerts....

HR 490, the Heartbeat Bill

Life at Conception Act

Pa Delegation in DC:

Cur-rent Dist.	Representative	Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (H.R.1881)	Conscience Protection Act (H.R.644)		Healthy Relation-ships Act (H.R.2028)	Oppose Assisted Suicide (H. Con. Res. 80)
1st	Bob Brady (D)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
2nd	Dwight Evans (D)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
3rd	Mike Kelly (R)	Not cosponsor	Cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
4th	Scott Perry (R)	Not cosponsor	Cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
5th	Glenn Thompson (R)	Cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
6th	Ryan Costello (R)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
7th	Pat Meehan (R)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
8th	Brian Fitzpatrick (R)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
9th	Bill Shuster (R)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
10th	Tom Marino (R)	Cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
11th	Lou Barletta (R)	Cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
12th	Keith Rothfus (R)	Cosponsor	Cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Cosponsor
13th	Brendan Boyle (D)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
14th	Michael Doyle (D)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
15th	Charlie Dent (R)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
16th	Lloyd Smucker (R)	Not cosponsor	Cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
17th	Matthew Cartwright (D)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Cosponsor
18th	Connor Lamb (D)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
U.S. Senators		Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (S.811)	Conscience Protection Act (S.301)	First Amendment Defense (S.2525)
Robert Casey, Jr (D)		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
Patrick Toomey (R)		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor

NJ Delegation in DC:

Cur-rent Dist.	Representative	Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (H.R.1881)	Conscience Protection Act (H.R.644 )		Healthy Relation-ships Act (H.R.2028)	Oppose Assisted Suicide (H. Con. Res. 80)
1	Donald Norcross (D)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
2	Frank LoBiondo (R)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
3	Tom MacArthur (R)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
4	Chris Smith (R)	Cosponsor	Cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Cosponsor
5	Josh Gottheimer (D)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
6	Frank Pallone, Jr. (D)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
7	Leonard Lance (R)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
8	Albio Sires (D)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
9	Bill Pascrell (D)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
10	Donald Payne, Jr. (D)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
11	Rodney Frelinghuysen (R)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
12	Bonnie Watson Coleman (D)	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
U.S. Senators		Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (S.811)	Conscience Protection Act (S.301)	First Amendment Defense (S.2525)
Robert Menendez (D)		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor
Corey Booker (D)		Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor	Not cosponsor