June 29, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where lawmakers ponder requiring folks to look for work if they want to stay on food stamps. Rachel del Guidice reports. With the news that 111 people ended their lives under California's new assisted suicide law, you'll want to see Kelsey Harkness' video report on a doctor who blames insurers. In another disturbing move, Jarrett Stepman writes, the Golden State declares it won't pay for travel to states that don't embrace its LGBT agenda. Plus: Emilie Kao on justice for a church school playground, and Sen. David Perdue on making Congress work this August.
In the age of Trump, the Golden State isn’t content to focus on its own issues. It has turned its agenda outward by crafting its own "travel ban," aimed at punishing sister states for not going along with its views.
Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., says his bill would require able-bodied food stamp recipients without dependent children to "provide proof of doing job searches" and "the amount of time they are spending doing this."
Kelsey Harkness interviews a physician who treats terminally ill men and women.
The EPA and Army Corps of Engineers, through the Clean Water Act, were seeking to regulate almost every water imaginable.
The Senate has just 35 working days until the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30, and that's assuming Mondays and Fridays are indeed used for deliberation, writes Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga.
Chief Justice John Roberts declared that "the exclusion of Trinity Lutheran from a public benefit for which it is otherwise qualified, solely because it is a church, is odious to our Constitution ... and cannot stand."
"While Planned Parenthood is allowed to advertise on Twitter, the social media company has suppressed [our] ads, calling our pro-life messages offensive and inflammatory," Live Action writes.
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