Chaplaincy Challenge: Why Don’t U.S. House Members Pay Their Own Preacher?
Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending.
That’s House Speaker John Boehner’s mantra and the reason the House Republicans claim they were put in charge.
Yet despite this, Boehner and his friends are continuing to use taxpayer dollars to pick up the tab for a House chaplain. Boehner has nominated the Rev. Patrick J. Conroy, a Jesuit priest and theology teacher at a Catholic school in Portland, Ore., to fill the position.