I Prayed have prayed
Father, we ask that You make a way in the Senate so that our nation can hold Your biblical values.
Reading Time: 5 minutes

While the outcome still might hinge on a pair of January runoff elections in Georgia, a Republican majority would brake a Biden administration legislatively and on judicial and cabinet appointments.

WASHINGTON — As of Thursday morning, the Republican Party looked poised to retain a slim majority in the U.S. Senate — an outcome that could be highly significant in light of the prospect of a Biden presidency as President Donald Trump’s path to reelection continues to narrow.

While votes are still being counted in key states and the Trump campaign has filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia over ballot concerns, a GOP Senate majority will be crucial for religious liberty and pro-life issues in the event of a Biden presidency and to serve as a brake against a pronounced progressive political tilt in other areas as well.  . . .

There are four races that have yet to be called as of Thursday morning. Votes were still being counted in Alaska in the race between Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan and Democrat Al Gross, and while the winner will not be determined until next week, when mail-in ballots are counted, Sullivan was leading by a 63%-32% margin with more than 50% of total ballots counted. In North Carolina, incumbent Sen. Thom Tillis currently leads Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham, who has insisted on waiting for all the ballots to be counted, which means that race will also be determined next week.

Assuming the Republicans hold both seats, control of the Senate will come down to the other two races, both in Georgia, where special elections in January may determine the outcome. One Senate seat there is already headed to a runoff, as neither Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler nor Democrat Raphael Warnock received more than 50% of the vote. In the race between incumbent Republican Sen. David Perdue and Democrat challenger Jon Ossoff, Perdue held a lead with just over 50% of votes as of Thursday morning. Perdue is virtually certain to finish ahead of Ossoff, but he will nonetheless face a runoff special election if his final tally drops below 50%.

The only likely path for Democrats to take control of the Senate is if both Democratic challengers in Georgia win, resulting in a 50-50 Senate split where, in a Biden presidency, his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris of California, as vice president would cast the additional, deciding vote.

Impact on Biden Agenda

Provided that the GOP retains at least a 51-seat majority after the votes are counted and special elections conclude in Georgia, it’s clear the Republican Senate would cripple the Biden agenda.  . . .

“Senate Republicans are going to be in a very strong position to steer the next two years,” Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, a member of the Republican leadership, told the Times. “Nothing is going to become law without the support of Senate Republicans.”

“If Biden ultimately wins the presidency and Republicans retain the Senate, Biden would become the first president since George H.W. Bush to start his first term without a Congress fully controlled by his party,” The Washington Post said. “That means that a major, signature legislative achievement early in his administration could be out of reach unless there is significant compromise.”

Additionally, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnnell, R-Ky., has been a crucial force in pushing through President Trump’s record of more than 200 judicial appointments, including that of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Under a Biden administration, McConnell would be poised to lead Republicans in blocking judicial and cabinet appointments.  . . .

Impact on Pro-Life Movement 

Tom McClusky, president of March for Life Action, told the Register that the Senate is key to the Democrats’ agenda because in “the appropriations process, you need all three levers: You need the White House; you need the Senate; you need the House.”

“The Democrats had planned on getting rid of all the pro-life provisions, not only the Hyde Amendment but … the Weldon Amendment and all these different pro-life provisions,” he said. “Now the Senate is in position to say what President Trump said after the Democrats took over the House: If you change any pro-life provisions, they won’t accept the bill.”

The Hyde Amendment, on which Biden changed his position in June 2019, bans taxpayer funding of abortion. While Republicans appear likely to win some additional seats in the House, it will remain under Democratic control, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., signaled this summer that she would be open to doing away with the largely bipartisan, decades-old amendment, saying it “discriminates against poor women.” The Weldon Amendment is an annual appropriations rider that prevents federal, state and local governments receiving federal funds from discriminating against health-care entities that decline to “provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.”

McClusky added that part of the Senate’s influence would be “making sure that the Biden cabinet isn’t as radical as some on the left would like it to be, and that could somewhat affect pro-life policy.”

McClusky said appointments to the Department of Justice could be significant and referenced the campaign promises of Biden’s running mate to “start investigating pro-life laws in the states through the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. The way Kamala Harris put it when she was running, if the states were to pass pro-life legislation, it would be up to the Biden justice department to decide if it’s allowed to go into effect or not.”  . . .

A ‘Defensive’ Role 

Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, told the Register that GOP control of the Senate would be a crucial check on legislation that would be harmful to the pro-life cause and to religious freedom.

“Its role would be defensive,” he said. “It would not be in a position to put new legislation through, because, of course, it would be vetoed by President Biden, but it would be in a position to block legislation hostile to religious freedom or the pro-life cause coming up out of the House of Representatives.”

George gave the example of Biden’s campaign promise of “some sort of federal codification of Roe v. Wadein the event that it’s overturned by the Supreme Court,” which George believed to be “quite possible,” saying, in that scenario, the Senate would be in a position to block that legislation.

As for religious freedom, George noted that the Senate could block the passage of the “Equality Act,” which “would in the name of ‘LGBT’ rights crush the religious liberty of religious institutions of all sorts, including the Catholic Church and its social-welfare agencies, adoption agencies and shelters and all sorts of other things.”

Biden declared the Equality Act his No. 1 legislative priority as president last June. The proposed federal legislation would remove the ability under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to cite religious freedom as a defense against discrimination claims and would add sexual orientation and gender identity to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act without religious-freedom exemptions. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opposed the legislation, saying it would “impose sweeping new norms that negatively impact the unborn, health care, charitable services, schools, personal privacy, athletics, free speech, religious liberties and parental rights.”  . . .

Veteran Church analyst George Weigel told the Register that the impact of a Biden presidency when it comes to abortion and religious freedom legislation would be “minimal, if the Republicans hold the Senate.” In that case, he predicted “all sorts of efforts to roll back some of the conscience protections that have been built into federal regulations of health care, for example, but those can and should be resisted.”

Rick Santorum, a CNN senior political commentator and former two-term U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, discussed the role of a Republican-controlled Senate with the Napa Institute’s executive director, John Meyer, the day after the election.

“Frankly, if we can hold the Senate, we stop Biden from doing a lot of really bad things, like packing the court, adding D.C. as a state,” said Santorum, who is Catholic.

Santorum suggested that a Biden presidency might actually benefit from Republican control of the Senate, assuming that Biden doesn’t want to accommodate the more extreme demands of Democratic progressives. Biden “got handed a big favor by the Senate Republicans,” he said, because even though “he’ll be frustrated,” he’ll “have an excuse for the left as to why he’s not doing a lot of the things that they want him to do, because he can’t.”

(Excerpt from National Catholic Register. Article by Lauretta Brown. Photo Credit: Getty Images.)

Share your prayers for the Senate in the comments below!

Comments (11) Print

Comments

Leave A Reply

Your email address will not be published.

Linda Lucas
November 30, 2020

Oh, ye of little faith! How soon have you disregarded the prophets word that Donald Trump will be President for four more years. Have you given up already? Hold fast, prayer continually! The Supreme Court will confirm Donald Trump and overturn what the communist media have declared. Biden is NOT the President-elect because AP or any of those have said so. The people have spoken with their honest votes for Trump and God WILL honor it!

3
    Alma
    November 30, 2020

    It will shown that President Trump won by a landslide. That we also took House and the Senate, and two more conservative judges will serve on the Supreme Court. Amen!

    3
      Linda Lucas
      December 1, 2020

      Thank you and may God richly bless you for your faith! May His Will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven. I feel that many of the Christians are in despair because they falsely believe that Biden and his left wing anti-God crew have already won. Not so! Thank you, sister!

Paul
November 29, 2020

God hates hands that shed innocent blood. How more innocent than an living, breathing baby that is murdered. The definition of Abortion: the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. Proverbs 6:16-19 King James Version
16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. Our president Donald J Trump, has been the most Pro-Life president in our nation’s history. He has done more for Christian’s rights and liberties than any other president. He has done more for Israel (the apple of God’s eye), than any other president. Because God promised Abraham in the Bible, “I’ll bless them that bless you, and I will curse them that curse you”, Donald Trump will be blessed. Please pray for Donald Trump, Mike Pence and our nation elections that the truth will be revealed and that Donald Trump will remain as our President. God bless you.

28
Daniel
November 29, 2020

Dear Lord, our Heavenly Father, please bless these remaining Senate races, and protect them from the corruption of wicked, arrogant people who wish to steal them. Lord, please bless us with good leaders, legislators, and public servants. Lord please help us bring to an end this war on your sacred values that have been so important to this nation. Lord please deliver us from the evil and ignorance that seeks to destroy our nation and all of us who would see your Word upheld. Please enlighten the deceived, and bring down those arrogant and wicked people who truly serve evil. In Jesus precious name I pray, amen.

27
Laura Dominick
November 29, 2020

Father, I continue to stand with Your church while You work to expose the truth of this election: that President Trump won by a landslide! I am trusting that a Biden presidency will never happen because it is based on cheating and wickedness. I pray also that You would grant favor to the Republican Senate candidates in the Georgia runoff election so that millions of unborn babies might be protected from sacrifice to Molech. Please, Father, we desire to be a nation that glorifies You and seeks Your will in all we do. Thank You for Your steadfast love towards us and that You delight to hear our prayers and act on our behalf! Hallelujah! Praise to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!

30
Jimmy B Shackle
November 29, 2020

Lord , I pray for all of these Republican Senate races. That you will protect them from vote fraud, as happened to President Trump. Especially in Georgia where we obviously have a traitor in charge of the voting process & using the Dominion system that is designed to commit fraud. I pray that you would block this fraud & prevent the system from doing so. You oh Lord are able to control all things even inanimate objects. I pray in Jesus Name. Amen

33
    Linda Lucas
    November 30, 2020

    Lord, please totally destroy the Dominion software program that caused so much of the cheating in the Presidential election. Wipe it out completely from the entire world and erase from the minds of the wicked how to repair it ever again. You can do all things, Lord and we ask it in Your holy Name Jesus, Amen!

Intercessor
November 29, 2020

Abba, Father! Let the prayers offered here be with seriousness, alacrity and rent hearts! It’s the effective FERVENT prayers of the righteous that avail much (James 5)! You are a rewarder of those who DILIGENTLY seek you (Heb 11). Shall not God avenge his elect that CRY OUT to him DAY and NIGHT (i.e., with assiduity, Luke 18). Those who appear in the presence of God must never do so without sincerely desiring the things of which they have need and fully expecting to receive the things for which they’ve supplicated (John Calvin, Institutes, Book III, Chapter 20 — don’t knock him til you’ve read him), in Jesus’ Name!

25
    Alma
    November 29, 2020

    We declare there will never be a Biden presidency and there will be a conservative God-fearing majority leading the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court. Nancy Pelosi will be dethroned, along with Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff, and the DNC, FBI, and CIA will be judged for their crimes.
    President elect Trump will lead our nation with truth and righteousness as God has promised.

    20

Partner with Us

Intercessors for America is the trusted resource for millions of people across the United States committed to praying for our nation. If you have benefited from IFA's resources and community, please consider joining us as a monthly support partner. As a 501(c)3 organization, it's through your support that all this possible.

Dave Kubal
IFA President
Become a Monthly Partner

Share

Click below to share this with others

Log in to Join the Conversation

Log in to your IFA account to start a discussion, comment, pray, and interact with our community.