Oct. 25, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where a Republican senator who used to run a Fortune 500 company urges colleagues to cut taxes for Americans this year. Fred Lucas reports. In the House, conservatives move to revisit Justice Department actions involving Hillary Clinton's email scandal. Rachel del Guidice recaps. Unions aren't happy with a right-to-work measure in Delaware, Kevin Mooney learns. Plus: Bill Walton on education spending that follows students, and Jarrett Stepman on college kids who think Lincoln was a slave owner. Ready to be an intern for The Daily Signal? Apply here for the spring semester.
"Everyone thinks of Lincoln as the great, you know, freer of slaves, but let's be real: He owned slaves, and as natives, we want people to know that he ordered the execution of native men," says one protester.
"If your county is not a right-to-work county, then prospective businesses won't consider coming," says council member Rob Arlett.
"The law is the most equalizing force in this country. No entity or individual is exempt from oversight," say Reps. Bob Goodlatte and Trey Gowdy.
"We are doing things differently with this bill than we did on the health care bill that ended up in disaster, so I feel like we've got a shot at getting it done this year," says Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga.
The phrase is catching on because it captures an exciting idea—the notion that, instead of appropriating giant sums to school systems, we, in effect, give each child a backpack full of cash to spend on education as their parents see fit.
California Gov. Jerry Brown, a virulent Trump opponent, says he will sue the president for nixing the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era regulation Republicans believe hurt the coal industry.
If they can delegitimize the Founders themselves, it goes a long way toward their agenda of delegitimizing the founding principles of our nation.
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