THE PELOSI PARTY:

Amendments kill CARE in Senate (Larry Witham, 11/15/02, THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

This year's main legislation to promote faith-based initiatives died in the Senate yesterday, as Republicans called for a final vote before the lame-duck session ended but Democrats ran out the clock by demanding to add several new amendments. [...]

In two years of debate over Senate legislation, black civil rights groups, church-state separationists and homosexual rights organizations have warned of discrimination under an expanded charitable-choice provision, which was passed with bipartisan support in 1996 by the Senate. The 1996 law enabled faith-based organizations to compete for federal grants to provide basic social services.

And they wonder why they can't get a dog-catcher elected in the South? Posted by Orrin Judd at November 18, 2002 8:00 PM