HEALTH CARE // Lacking the votes to pass, House Republican leaders postponed a vote on their health care replacement bill. President Trump threatened to keep Obamacare in placement if the House GOP bill failed. A vote on the House plan is now expected today. http://cvote.it/2mxNlsf
HEALTH CARE // “Republicans ought to take their time and write a better bill that, unlike the AHCA, actually repeals Obamacare and institutes real reform of the broken healthcare system,” the Washington Examiner writes in an editorial. http://cvote.it/2mxM700
SUPREME COURT // Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said that he would lead a filibuster against Judge Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Schumer’s move, if backed by 41 of the 48 Democrats in the Senate, would force Republicans to either abandon Gorsuch’s nomination or ‘nuke’ the filibuster and approve his nomination on a simple majority vote. http://cvote.it/2mxI2Jw
SUPREME COURT // Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said that if you’ll filibuster Neil Gorsuch, that “it’s obvious you’d filibuster anybody.” http://cvote.it/2mxCz5q
FRIDAY FUNNY // “Why can’t the GOP just find, like, an amazing deal-maker, an artist of deals, who could work out a deal between House Republicans on AHCA?” -Joe Carter
CULTURE // Hollywood’s crusade against conservatives in the entertainment industry is intensifying. http://cvote.it/2n0kmJZ
CATHOLIC // Baltimore mourns Cardinal Keeler, who was the city’s archbishop from 1989 to 2007. http://cvote.it/2mxEuqJ
CATHOLIC // Fatima visionaries Francisco and Jacinta Marto will be proclaimed saints in May — in time for the 100th anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima. http://cvote.it/2mxKbF3
SAINT // Blessed Oscar Romero – http://cvote.it/dailysaint
DAILY MASS // “I am the Lord your God: hear my voice.” (Ps 81:11) – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
BEAUTY // A mom’s moving story shines light on joy of having child with Down syndrome. http://cvote.it/2mVMnlU