HEALTH CARE // A big vote looms on health care as early as tomorrow. But several details of the GOP health care legislation remain unknown. Senate Republicans are now considering two versions of similar legislation, one that would repeal and replace, and another that would simply repeal Obamacare with a two-year delay to give the Senate more time to agree on a replacement. http://cvote.it/2uOtYxT
HEALTH CARE // If Republicans fail to act on Obamacare, they will lose in 2018, said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX. “You can’t have your central promise for seven years be we’ll repeal Obamacare, and then you show up and vote not even to take up the bill to consider repealing Obamacare.” http://cvote.it/2uOlbw3
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY // Pro-abortion groups are lobbying for a California bill that Catholic leaders say would open up Catholic organizations — especially schools — to lawsuits. Under the bill, Catholic groups could not fire an employee who gets an abortion. http://cvote.it/2uOk1k6
EDUCATION // Education Savings Accounts allow public money to follow individual children — not bolster the education establishment. And when providers are required to compete for parents’ education funds, they will be forced to be more responsive. http://cvote.it/2uOnPli
DEMOCRATS // The Democratic National Committee raised $5.5 million in June, less than half the $13.5 million racked up by the Republican Party. With a reported $44.7 million, RNC has nearly six times as much cash on hand as the Democrats, who only reported $7.5 million on hand, according to the latest election reports. http://cvote.it/2uOm4ow
LGBT // How the LGBT movement used fake science to push gay marriage. http://cvote.it/2uOwfsX
CATHOLIC // “It’s also a bit condescending for the American Association of University Professors and the Land O’Lakes drafters to suppose that they alone have a care for academic freedom. John Paul II stresses in Ex Corde Ecclesiae that the Church, too, ‘recognizes the academic freedom of scholars.” This is true ‘in each discipline in accordance with its own principles and proper methods, and within the confines of the truth and the common good.'” -Catholic University President John Garvey on the 50th anniversary of the Land O’Lakes Statement. http://cvote.it/2uOoOCb
SAINT // Saint Sharbel Makhluf – http://cvote.it/dailysaint
DAILY MASS // “Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.” (Ex 15:1) – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
WITNESS // 10 holy married couples who were both saints. http://cvote.it/2uOrtvO