Oversight Committee Gavels back in. While we wait for the return, part of todays washington journal. At the table now representative butter field, democrat of North Carolina. Member of the Energy Commerce committee. Represents North Carolinas first district. Good morning to you. Thank you. Good morning. We asked you to come on and talk about the poverty line in the u. S. Weve been reading about proposed changes by the trump administration. And we want to get your reaction to them. Can you explain for us what exactly is the poverty line . And what does it mean . Sure. The Census Bureau defines what is poverty in the country and it bases it generally on a family of four. For a familyy of four the povery line in 2019 is 25,750. For single individual its 12 ,490. Many Government Programs are based on the poverty line. Free and reduced lunches for children at scol, for example. Childrens health insurance, another example. So many of our federal programs are based on the poverty line. And if
Primary wins overnight and in the sport. This morning, on a nervy night in north london, david rayais night in north london, david raya is the hero as arsenal scrape past porto on penalties. Scrape past porto on penalties. Novak djokovic loses to the world number 123, and the darts player banned for punching his opponent. Good morning. Theyll be very heavy rain across northWestern Areas through the next few days, but elsewhere it will be very mild. Find out all the details with me a little later. Mild. Find out all the details with me a little later. On. With me a little later. On. Right. Racist and wrong. Prime minister didnt say that, but a spokesperson did after hes branded the comments made by a Major Tory Party donor about the first woman black mp, diane abbott. Over night. The comments came from frank hester. Yeah, and he is one of the partys biggest donors. He gave £10 million to the conservatives, and he told a meeting that diane abbott should be shot and made him want to hate
with me are the daily mirror s political correspondent aleeta adu, and sam lister deputy political editor at the daily express. let s take a quick look at some of tomorrow s front pages. the daily mail has an interview with the prime minister, in which he intensifies his campaign against working from home. borisjohnson says when he s done it, he s wasted a lot of time making cups of coffee and eating cheese. the i has details of a drug that has halved breast cancer cases among post menopausal women the nhs is planning to roll ir out on a wider basis. the ft leads with tech tycoon elon musk putting his billion dollar bid to buy twitter on hold. the wagatha christie libel trial makes the front page of the mirror with coleen rooney giving evidence in court about her past marital problems. the government will scrap plans to ban cheap deals on unhealthy foods, according to the express in a move to tackle the cost of living crisis. cheap food also makes the front page of
The possibility of himself serving in that position before he has indicated he is opposed to that and this shows a desperate moment that republicans are in, jake and there are other possible candidates who can yet emerge and try to run for the Spook Speakership and they will run into the same problem, and nationally with Kevin Mccarthy who was pushed out of The Speakership that they would have a difficult, if not impossible time of getting to the 217 votes needed to be elected speaker given the significant divisions that are still within this badly divided republican conference traying tra tra traying to figure on the a way forward and jim jordan could lose the vote by potentially a worse margin than yesterday. It is unprecedented and frankly, embarrassing. Well get back to the vote that well see happen soon, but now lets go to israel and the american president and President Biden and the Anger Rippling across arab capitals specifically about that incident at the hospital. Cnns Kaitlan
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