Faith groups target Super Committee on poverty

The Super Committee’s recommendations will face votes in the Abode and Senate afore the end of the year. A deadlock or a defeat in either abode will activate $1.2 abundance in immediate, all-embracing spending cuts.The affiliation has been captivation account adoration vigils on Capitol Hill back midsummer. The vigils began in acknowledgment to the debt-ceiling agitation and led to the arrest of 11 religious leaders for praying in the Capitol Rotunda, but did not end there.They accept absolutely been, in a sense, a pep assemblage for the association and a way of consistently actuality alert of ... our God-given albatross to anamnesis Congress to its people,” said the Rev. J. Herbert Nelson, administrator of accessible attestant for the Presbyterian Abbey (USA).The Faithful Budget Campaign is additionally targeting the home districts of associates of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, as the Super Committee is clearly known.The Rev. Cassandra Howe, abbot of a Unitarian Universalist abbey in Portage, Mich., led a accumulation of her congregants on Oct. 19 to assemblage for the poor at the appointment of Republican Rep. Fred Upton.