Life and times. This is just over an hour. Im john eleff, president of the Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia. The Lincoln Group has existed since the 1930s to honor the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. And this year we have a special opportunity to hear from an extraordinary speaker. And in introducing him i would like to repeat something that he said at the First National Republican Convention that he attended as a young man in 1884. He was part of a reform wing of the Republican Party, and they had an insurgent candidate to be temporary chair of the convention, taking on the candidacy of the Republican National committee. That candidate happened to be the africanamerican congressmen from mississippi, john r. Lynch, and here is somewhere of what our speaker said. It is now less than a quarter of a century this this great city organized it is a fitting thing for us to choose to preside over this convention. One of that race whose right to sit within these walls is due to the
Welcome to Aljazeera America this wednesday morning, im stephanie sy. Hundreds of thousands are federal workers are waking up this morning with no job to go to. The government remains shut down with no signs of progress and congress deadlocked. On tuesday, the republicans in the house proposed a measure to reopen National Parks, and parts of the department of veterans affairs, but it was defeated on the house floor in a bipartisan vote. Democrats rejected the idea as political cherry picking. Theyre using the parks as a pawn. This is about defunding the Affordable Care act on a day when millions of people are logging in to find out how they can enroll. Its really a remarkable historic day, where people can receive the promise of our founders, of life, liberty and the pursuit of anticipateness. The budget impasse resolves around a gop demand that any spending bill include a delay or repeal of the Affordable Care act. Republicans hope the shutdown will force a compromise. I think its fai