October 11, 2019

Inside this issue

• CCUSA Presents the Washington Weekly

  CCUSA Presents the Washington Weekly  
  Congress was home in district this week and they return next week with a looming fiscal deadline on the horizon.
 
Before Congress left they passed a short-term spending agreement to keep the government funded through November 21st.  Over the break, House and Senate appropriations staff have been working to find agreement among subcommittee allocations to help jumpstart negotiations over the 12 fiscal spending bills. The primary negotiations will focus on allocations for Labor-HHS-Education and Military Construction-VA bills and whether there will be any funding for a wall along the southern border. If Congress and the administration fail to come to a consensus by the November deadline,  the federal government faces the possibility of a shutdown.
 
Faith and the Common Good Don Clark from Springfield, Missouri was the first to correctly identify Mae Ella Nolan as the first woman to chair a standing committee in the House of Representatives. 
Late in the 67th Congress, she was appointed to chair the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office and received national press attention as the first woman to chair a congressional committee. 
 
Mae Ella Nola was an American politician who was the fourth woman to serve in the United States Congress, the first woman elected to Congress from California, and the first to fill the seat left vacant by her husband's death. She took her seat in the United States House of Representatives in 1923.  She represented California's 5th district which at the time included San Francisco.
 
St. Teresa of Avila
On October 15th, we celebrate the feast day of St. Teresa of Avila.  Born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, she was also called St. Teresa of Jesus.  She was a Spanish noblewoman who chose a monastic life as a Carmelite nun.  She is regarded as a prominent Spanish mystic, religious reformer, author, and theologian of the contemplative life.
 
During her lifetime, St. Teresa of Avila wrote a beautiful poem that has been used as a prayer throughout the centuries. It is simple in its format, which is why many turn to it in times of distress.
 
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.
 
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