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This week, there were widespread
reports that the administration will
work with Senate Democratic leaders
and Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., to
pass a limited faith-based bill that will
focus on using the tax code to help
charities raise money to provide
important health and social services.
Gone will be all but a few vestiges of
"charitable choice"
controversial
proposals that would reduce restric-
tions on religious groups seeking gov-
ernment money to provide services.
Earlier this year, the House passed a
sweeping bill that included charitable
choice provisions. At the same time,
the House version severely cut back
elements of the bill intended to
encourage charitable giving.
But leaders in the Democratic
Senate put the brakes on the faith-
based effort.
Liberal Jewish groups, working with
a coalition of church-state organiza-
tions, oppose charitable choice; two
major Orthodox groups support the
concept.
Marshall Wittmann, a congressional
analyst for the conservative Hudson
Institute, said the decisive factor in
derailing the charitable choice drive
was last month's terror attacks.
"It's a product of (the administra-
tion's) general desire to husband its
political capital at the moment," he
said. "It's unlikely they'd want to get
into a major fight over charitable
choice at a time when they are trying
to build national unity on the war
front."
And with the administration focused
almost entirely on the anti-terror war
and its foreign policy and domestic
repercussions, the White House lacked
the manpower to overcome
Democratic resistance to the plan in
the Senate.
One big question: will the more con-
servative House go along with a drasti-
cally watered down bill? And will
House leaders, who drastically scaled
back the charitable relief portion of the
bill before passing it, choke on requests
for more money to help charities?
Nathan Diament, director of the
Orthodox Union's Institute for Public
Affairs, said the House is likely to go
along with a compromise if they are
convinced the idea will be revisited.
"Right now, they're looking more at
a two-stage process," he said. "The
first stage involves the tax and incen-
tive provisions."
Charitable choice could come into
the equation later, but Diament said
that it is almost certain to be put off
until next year. ❑
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