The Polio Campaign with guns and rumors. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story tonight the furloughs ended for some federal workers today, but hundreds of thousands more stayed home, and much of the government started a second week in shutdown mode. Newshour Congressional Correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. The government is still shut down. Services are still interrupted. With no end to the shutdown in sight, president obama warned House Republicans today theyre wrong if
To stall thanks to epic floods. Political turmoil and religious extremists who thought the polio fought the Polio Campaign with guns and rumors. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story tonight the furloughs ended for some federal workers today, but hundreds of thousands more stayed home, and much of the government started a second week in shutdown mode. Newshour Congressional Correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. The government is still shut down. Services are still interrupt
Shortterm debt limit extension, maybe Speaker Boehner can bring this to the conservatives within his conference and say we may not get all what we want right now, but lets have a shortterm extension and keep the fight going. Woodruff you mentioned Speaker Boehner. So much of this is focused on him. Describe some of the pressures around him right now . What is he hearing, what is he dealing with. Speaker boehner really is a central figure right now. I think he has very much a dry wit about him. I see him every morning when he his breakfast at petes dinner on capitol hill. But he is struggling to hold his conference together, to have a grip over his conference. Hes baling with a bloc of about 30 to 50 conservatives this have probably more influence than most people realize, they really shape the direction of negotiations within the house gop and they are telling boehner to hold firm and not negotiate. And thats really shaking what is happening within the conference. They dont want boehne
O capitol hill this week for orientation training sessions fo the start in january the Senate Returns a three pin id. A continue debate on a u. S. Strict court judge for puerto rico. Watch live coverage of the house on cspan, the senate on cspan2. You can also want on a fe video out cspan now, or online at cspan. Org. Next a a Panel Discussion hosted by the Federalist Society on to mix up in court cases that focus on use of affirmative action and of the race conscious admissions policies at colleges and universities. Welcome to the search with it. My name is that were excited to host a discussion phase or arguments. We have a great panel with us today. Ill keep interest briefed as we get to the discussion going. You can you there for my files online. Amanda shanor is a universe of pennsylvania what the school of business where scholarship focuses on administrator slavitt just particular expertise in a First Amendment and work on the master cake shop case. Devon westhill is president ia
This point . President trump or president bidens ability statewide to really change the dynamic is probably you can watch this program in entirety on cspan. Org. Coming up a discussion about the Current Supreme Court race challenging race conscious admissions policies at harvard and university of North Carolina. The discussion is hosted by the federalist society. Your watching live coverage on cspan. You are watching live coverage on cspan. To talk about i think some of the most important cases being heard this decade. So i wanted to highlight a few things. I want to be quick because im more interested. The first is originalism. Justice jackson did not raise it, but justices from all around the bench raise the question of what is the first intention of the First Amendment and what did people of the time understand it to be . There are a number of reasons that argue that there are significant legislation that was that we might describe today as affirmative action. Right . Ive said this