Game over, you lose. Look, i understand the political virtue of making that argument. Its always good to convince those who disagree with you to just give up their beliefs. Sometimes those of us on this side of the aisle oblige by doing so. But its not an argument that has any basis in the constitution. Is obamacare currently the loft land . Of course. Its passed into law, some statute books. No one on this side of the aisle is arguing that its not. Were arguing that it shouldnt be. Thats a very different thing than saying its not. And congress has the power of the purse. Congress has the power ill finish this point and then im happy to yield for a question. Congress has the power to appropriate and theres no obligation for congress to appropriate, to fund a law that isnt working. That evidence and experience that what the American People are experiencing has demonstrated it isnt working. And so the house of representatives in voting to deFund Obamacare while funding the rest of govern
A deadly boat crash is under investigation. It has a broken mast. Well have a live report to let us know how what was a casual race turned deadly. It is thursday, april 17. Good morning. Lets talk about weather and traffic. What should we look forward to . Mostly sunny. We do have a few high clouds to the south that will get pushed off to the east pretty fast. Not a lot of fog yet, but its raring to go and will ramp up late this afternoon, tonight and into tomorrow. This will give us a pretty good cooldown. Mostly sunny with higher clouds, mostly clear and a little bit of fog creeping back by this afternoon and tonight. Theres not a lot there for fog right now. Brisk at the napa airport. Overall mostly sunny and then tonight and tomorrow we start to pick up the fog, and that system right there will sweep through and give us a cooldown. Mostly sunny, 60s, 70s coast and bay and upper 70s and low 80s inland. We do have a problem in san jose here, and this crash happened just after midnigh
Years . Guest his family pay for permits and leases. In the 1960s and 1970s. Then in 1993, there was a change to the regulations based on the regulations adopted to protect habitats. That was around the time that the desert tortoise issue came up in the west. Bundys last lease ran out and if hely 1993, blm asked was going to remove. He said no, he said i do not like the fact that youre making the regulations more restrictive. The government has the right to do that. That is when he said i am not paying this anymore and i dont see this as legitimate anymore. This is been going since then. Host i want to go back to this. It is fascinating to look at nevada alone. Just how much is federal land. Guest all that orange. Host at what point did we start buying up this land . How long have we owned it . Guest the government did own the west back in the day. It has been changing ever since the late 1800s. Nevada became a state in 1864. The federal government has had a pretty open policy for deca
Williams. Good evening. Brian has the night off. Im lester holt. If theres anything weve learned as a nation at war for the past 13 years, it is that events on the ground can change rapidly and so can the mission. Today, the United Nations declared a refugee crisis in iraq. A level 3 emergency, its highest level. Late this afternoon we learned u. S. Special forces landed on an iraqi mountain top to assess the feasibility of a military rescue mission. Thousands of yazidi civilians are stranded there under threat by islamic fighters. It was less than a week ago the u. S. Began humanitarian air drops and limited air strikes against isis targets inside Northern Iraq. And now tonight a possible large scale refugee evacuation is on the table. We get to keir simmons with the latest on iraq in a moment, but first to the pentagon and nbcs jim miklaszewski. Reporter good evening. Theres late word that those u. S. Forces have flown off the mountain and safely back at their base. But for the First
Daniel webster to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. Wolf, for five minutes. Wolf mr. Speaker, today ive come to the floor to raise the seventh in a series of critical but Unanswered Questions about the terrorist attacks on the consulate in benghazi last september 11, 2011. The American People still do september 11, 2012. The American People still do have w if the answers been questioned. Im increasingly concerned that