Why Congress dropped the Johnson Amendment repeal from tax reform

[Stan]

  s part of the final push to enact tax reform before the end of the year, a proposed tax code change that would permit churches and other non-profit organizations to engage in partisan political campaigning has been dropped from the House and Senate reconciliation version of 2017 tax bill. Although the House version of the bill had included a […]

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[Mario-One]

I heard that the republicans tried to repeal the Johnson Amendment by including it in the Tax Reform Law, and last week the General Conference published a document on Dec. 20th about how the Tax Cuts will effect the church. The Johnson Amendment is mentioned it it.
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but it said the amendment was removed from the bill.  I wondered what happened and the article you shared from ReligiousLiberty.TV explained it. Thank you