Stories tagged with: u.s. house of representatives

• ERLC: House relief bill fails in multiple ways

  by Tom Strode, posted Tuesday, May 19, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- The latest coronavirus (COVID-19) relief bill in Congress falls short on multiple counts, according to the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

  The House of Representatives approved a $3 trillion package May 15 in a 208-199 roll call vote that failed to gain approval from 14 members of the Democratic majority. The legislation, which apparently matches the combined funding amount of four previous pandemic relief measures, appears to have no chance of passage in the Senate, and the White House has announced its opposition. Read More

• House drops deadline for ERLC-opposed ERA

  by Tom Strode, posted Friday, February 14, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to rescind a deadline established nearly 50 years ago for a constitutional amendment a Southern Baptist Convention entity says would threaten the sanctity of human life and freedom of conscience.

  The House voted 232-183 in an almost party-line roll call to remove the deadline set by Congress in 1972 for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a controversial proposal that failed to gain ratification by three-fourths of the states in the allotted time. When Congress approved the ERA, it established a seven-year deadline for ratification by the states. Congress later extended the deadline three more years, but proponents achieved passage in only 35 of the 38 states needed before time expired in 1982. Read More

• SBC DIGEST: SWBTS professor recognized in U.S. House; New ERLC Bible curriculum 'The Church and the Racial Divide'

  by Alex Sibley and Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, January 15, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  Pastor and SWBTS professor Chris Osborne was honored in U.S. House of Representatives for 33 years of service; New ERLC Bible curriculum "The Church and the Racial Divide: Finding Unity in the Race-Transcending Gospel" applies the Gospel to race issue. Read More

• Southern Baptist leaders welcome repeal of tax on churches

  by Tom Strode & Roy Hayhurst, posted Monday, December 23, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP)—Two Southern Baptist entity heads have greeted the repeal of a two-year-old tax on churches and other nonprofit organizations with gratitude.

  President Trump signed into law Dec. 20 a spending bill that includes language rescinding a section of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that requires houses of worship and other nonprofits to pay a 21 percent tax on such employee benefits as parking and transportation. The Senate approved the legislation that included the repeal Dec. 19 in a bipartisan, 71-23 roll call. The House of Representatives passed the measure also in bipartisan fashion by a 297-120 vote Dec. 17. Read More

• Divided House approves impeachment inquiry

  by Staff, posted Friday, November 01, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- The U.S. House of Representatives' nearly party-line vote Thursday (Oct. 31) in support of a presidential impeachment inquiry for only the fourth time in American history reflected the deep division in Congress and the country over the issue.

  The House voted 232-196 for a resolution instructing committees to continue their investigations into whether evidence exits to impeach President Trump and establishing rules for the process. No Republican members voted for the resolution, while only two Democrats voted against it. Read More