Sept. 14, 2016
Good morning from Washington, where House conservatives may give way on funding the government to stop a "giveaway" of the internet. Philip Wegmann reports. President Obama's conservation legacy pits Indian tribes against each other. Josh Siegel has the history. Should women be drafted? No, one female gyrene tells Kelsey Harkness. Plus: Robert Rector on how government distorts poverty, and John Malcolm and Tiffany Bates on the push for a more liberal Supreme Court. On this day in 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner."
The Census Bureau released its annual report declaring that 43.1 million Americans lived in poverty in 2015. But what does it mean to be living in poverty? After all, more than half of poor families with children have a video game system.
Jude Eden, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq, shared her personal take about why she believes forcing women into the draft poses a danger for the country's national defense.
"I fear with a monument, there will be more restrictions … We are always being cut off somewhere, and we don't really trust the federal government," says Marie Holliday, a 72-year-old resident of Monument Valley in Utah's San Juan County who belongs to the Navajo tribe.
"A progressive majority on the Supreme Court is an imperative, and if I become majority leader, I will make it happen," says Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's latest showdown with the Obama administration over the White House plan to give up control of the internet could affect House conservatives' decision on a stopgap spending measure.
In his remaining few months in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama has found a new way to direct more taxpayer money to his friends at Planned Parenthood.
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