The U.S. Senate held its first hearings on charitable choice, the contentious part of the Bush administration’s faith-based initiative that calls for an expansion of laws allowing religious organizations to receive government money to provide social services. Representatives of Jewish organizations testified at the Judiciary Committee hearing.
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