Regarding: ""We are grateful for the efforts to include protections for the unborn, however, any final bill must include full Hyde Amendment provisions and add much-needed conscience protections.  The current proposals are simply unacceptable as written, and any attempts to repeal the ACA (Affordable Care Act) without a concurrent replacement is also unacceptable," he said in a July 25 statement."
- If there is one thing that Congress learned during the Obama's term it is this, that USCCB is not a fair partner in civil discourse. 
- It is appropriate for the USCCB to express the collective opinion of the episcopate in the US to the adherents of the 'catholic church'. However, Congress is wise to disregard what the USCCB states or reports until such time as when each congressional constituent having screened the USCCB's statement(s) then relays to the congressman what applies to a constituent's interest.