Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., chairs the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee.

Tom Vilsack is U.S. secretary of agriculture. See remarks he made in October 2011 about priorities for the 2012 farm bill.

June 1, 2013, Associated Press article about the Catholic Church’s waning influence in American politics. The article is posted on The Washington Post website.

Foreign Policy is a print and digital magazine that specializes in foreign policy news.

The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of religion, ethics, and public life.

The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank and publisher dedicated to helping its members better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.

James Russell is spokesman for Catholics for a Moral Immigration Policy and the author of Breach of Faith: American Churches and the Immigration Crisis, which decries “out-of-control immigration” and examines “why American churches do so much to further an agenda so obviously harmful to the well being of Middle Americans.” He is based in White Plains, […]

May 21, 2013, The New York Times article about a federal appellate panel overturning an Arizona law that made an abortion 18 weeks after fertilization illegal.

May 29, 2013, NewsOK op-ed written by Oklahoma state representative and practicing physician Dr. Doug Cox stating his opposition to laws that restrict a woman’s right to contraception and an abortion.