Michigan Catholic Conference has expressed significant reservations about the interests of Senators Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin to work for the quality and safe education of all students, especially the poor. The Conference’s concern follows the votes of Michigan’s two U.S. senators against an amendment that sought to protect the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
Michigan Catholic Conference Vice President for Public Policy Paul A. Long released the following statement regarding an executive order to be issued by President Obama that permits federal tax-payer funding of embryonic stem cell research.
Michigan Catholic Conference Vice President for Public Policy Paul Long made the following statement regarding a study in the online journal Nature, and reported in the Washington Post, that stem cell researchers have discovered an additional way to pursue stem cell research while avoiding the destruction of embryos.
For two years low-income Michigan workers have been told by the State that tax relief is on its way, but now some elected officials are calling for this tax relief to be halted.
On behalf of the 269 Catholic schools in the state, Michigan Catholic Conference today welcomed the adoption of Senate Resolution 4, which recognizes Catholic Schools Week and the role Catholic schools play throughout the State of Michigan.
Recognizing the tremendous budget difficulties that lie ahead, Michigan Catholic Conference today announced that protecting statewide programs that benefit Michigan’s poor population will top its advocacy efforts during the 95th legislative session. The Conference will also lend its support to any legislation that limits and regulates the destruction of human embryos following the passage of Proposal 2 in November.
The Most Reverend Allen H. Vigneron, Bishop of the Diocese of Oakland and former auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit, will soon become the fourth chairman of the Michigan Catholic Conference Board of Directors following an announcement from the Vatican today that Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of His Eminence Adam Cardinal Maida, Archbishop of Detroit, and has appointed Archbishop-elect Vigneron as his successor.
According to Paul Long, Vice President for Public Policy: “Enshrining in the state constitution a measure that prohibits the legislature from enacting any oversight or accountability measures related to the destruction of human embryos has unsettling consequences for the future.”
Several advocacy organizations today collectively urged all 148 members of the Michigan Legislature to protect the state’s poor and vulnerable citizens from the effects of rate “deskewing” as part of the Legislature’s debate on House Bill 5524, measures which seek to restructure the state’s energy utilities market.
