The Huffington Post blog included commentary about the Democrat-controlled Labor Health and Human Services Appropriations Conference Committee’s endorsement of a $141 million budget for community-based abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.

The record-level increase, pushed by House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-WI), flies in the face of a congressionally mandated evaluation showing that abstinence-only programs have “no impact on adolescent behavior.” Astonishingly, the windfall was larger than what President Bush had been able to obtain from the prior conservative, Republican-controlled Congress!

I wrote a related post about the $28 million increase and about Obey’s support of the legislation, defying party politics.

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