Support Unclear For GOP's Plan To End Shutdown

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House Republicans were expected to announce their own plan Tuesday to end the partial government shutdown and avert a default on the national debt. But House Speaker John Boehner came to the microphones and kept things very vague.

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NPR's business news begins with the latest on the deadlock here in Washington.

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GREENE: We've been following the story all this hour: House Republicans have been expected to announce their own plan to end the partial government shutdown and avert a default on the national debt. But House Speaker John Boehner came to the microphones a short while ago and kept things very vague.

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REPRESENTATIVE JOHN BOEHNER: There are a lot of opinions about what direction to go. There have been no decisions about what exactly we will do. But we're going to continue to work with our members on both sides of the aisle.

GREENE: Let's bring our congressional correspondent Tamara Keith in. Tam, when we spoke earlier this hour, you had said that there might not be enough Republican support for a plan that Boehner was coming up with. Is that what might have happened here?

TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE: That's exactly what it looks like happened. He went in with a plan. He came out with: We've got a lot of ideas, here. And that was basically the vibe I got from California Republican Darrell Issa. When he was exiting the meeting, I asked him what the support level was among House Republicans, and whether it was unanimous.

REPRESENTATIVE DARRELL ISSA: Unanimous would be Democratic Party. We're the Republican Party, so we're nearly unanimous, at best.

KEITH: At best. And there have been just a - House Republicans are really struggling with how to move forward, here.

GREENE: House Speaker John Boehner in a position that is becoming all too familiar. But let's just step back, if we can, Tamara. We had a Senate plan. There was talk of a bipartisan deal to avert the default on the debt and the government shutdown, or this Republican plan, maybe not enough support for it. Are we any closer to a compromise on these two issues today?

KEITH: The Senate is still moving forward, and there's this idea that sometimes it's darkest before the light. Sometimes when there's total chaos here in the capital and you don't know which way is up, ultimately, that leads to something emerging that will actually work. And this could be part of Boehner telling his members that they just have to go with Democratic support or go with the Senate plan.

GREENE: All right. We'll be following that story all day long on NPR News. That's our congressional correspondent, Tamara Keith. Thanks, Tamara.

KEITH: You're welcome.

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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 1934 file photo, Detroit Tigers manager Mickey Cochrane, left, and St. Louis Cardinals manager Frankie Frisch shake hands before the start of the opening game of the World Series in Detroit.The classic "birds on a bat" logo sported by Carlos Beltran and his St. Louis teammates, the Olde English "D" worn by Miguel Cabrera and his Detroit pals _ find a picture from the 1934 World Series between those teams and you'll recognize the jerseys. In an era when clubs frequently change their look and often wear more than a dozen uniform combinations, kind of neat to see the four remaining playoff teams dressed up in digs that date back 70 years or so. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 1934 file photo, Detroit Tigers manager Mickey Cochrane, left, and St. Louis Cardinals manager Frankie Frisch shake hands before the start of the opening game of the World Series in Detroit.The classic "birds on a bat" logo sported by Carlos Beltran and his St. Louis teammates, the Olde English "D" worn by Miguel Cabrera and his Detroit pals _ find a picture from the 1934 World Series between those teams and you'll recognize the jerseys. In an era when clubs frequently change their look and often wear more than a dozen uniform combinations, kind of neat to see the four remaining playoff teams dressed up in digs that date back 70 years or so. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 1951 file photo, Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player Andy Pafko, left, Don Newcomb, center, and Jackie Robinson shake hands in their dressing room after the Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-0, in New York. That flowing blue "Dodgers" script across the front of the jersey that followed them from Brooklyn. That pointy, ornate "B" on the Red Sox cap. Same style, now and then. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - In this April 19, 1952 file photo, Boston Red Sox' Ted Williams poses at Fenway Park in Boston. That flowing blue "Dodgers" script across the front of the jersey that followed them from Brooklyn. That pointy, ornate "B" on the Red Sox cap. Same style, now and then. (AP Photo/File)

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Tune in this week to watch Yasiel Puig or David Ortiz in high-def, then check out these throwbacks: Jackie Robinson stealing home in a grainy newsreel, Ted Williams swinging in a black-and-white photo.

See something familiar?

That flowing blue "Dodgers" script across the front of the jersey that followed them from Brooklyn. That pointy, ornate "B'' on the Red Sox cap.

Same style, now and then.

Pretty much true for the Cardinals and Tigers, too. The classic "birds on a bat" logo sported by Carlos Beltran and his St. Louis teammates, the Olde English "D'' worn by Miguel Cabrera and his Detroit pals — find a picture from the 1934 World Series between those teams and you'll recognize the jerseys.

In an era when clubs frequently change their look and often wear more than a dozen uniform combinations, kind of neat to see the four remaining playoff teams dressed up in duds that date back 70 years or so.

"They're all definitely the top jerseys in the game. You probably don't need to change them," Cardinals reliever Kevin Siegrist said.

"It's just the history of the game. It's crazy. These organizations have been around since when the game first started so it's awesome to have all these big teams in there. It's fun," he said.

There have been some changes, of course. The bat in the Cardinals logo is now yellow, rather than red or black from way back. The Tigers "D'' on the hat was orange at Fenway Park, instead of white.

Still, close enough.

"Uniforms have changed so much, it's nice to wear one that hasn't changed a lot," Red Sox infielder John McDonald said.

McDonald has put on plenty of them — he's played for seven teams in the majors, including Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh this season alone.

"My dad used to take me to watch baseball games a lot, I'd go to New York, Boston, a lot of places. I really started to notice the older uniforms when I was in Pittsburgh earlier this year," he said.

And now, baseball's playoff club shares a bond.

"It's cool. There's a lot of tradition with the teams that are left and a lot of history. That makes it great for baseball," Cardinals second baseman Matt Carpenter said.

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AP freelance writers Jeff Melnick, Ken Powtak and Calvin May contributed to this report.

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National Secular Society - New report highlights growing incursion ...

A new report published by the National Secular Society has revealed that publicly funded schools are being targeted and exploited by evangelical Christian groups as part of their missionary work.

The report, Evangelism in state schools – the role of external visitors in publicly funded education (pdf), reveals a determined push by evangelical churches and organisations to gain access to state schools with the intention of proselytizing among young children.

The report finds that the activities of external visitors are often undertaken in schools without parents' knowledge and with little, if any, opportunity for withdrawal.

According to the report, the motivations and aims of religious groups, either out of complicity or naivety, are going unquestioned by head teachers, governors, Local Education Authorities and the Department for Education.

The National Secular Society has written to Education Secretary, Michael Gove, calling for national guidance setting out best practice for working with external visitors and contributors and particularly religion and belief groups.

The report also calls for all schools to publish and adhere to an external visitor's policy which forbids proselytizing and evangelism and makes clear that parents should be given prior and relevant information about school visitors.

One parent, Saul Freeman from Sheffield, said:

"Having sent our child to a non-religious state primary school, we never expected to find ultra-conservative evangelical activity. Our son's school has never been open with parents about its close links with a local evangelical church despite our best efforts to get clarity.

"Adults who come in and lead school assemblies are seen by the children as authority figures in the local community – and this means that the school has conferred a status of trust and respect on a group of individuals who preach hate and a fundamentalist, literalist and creationist approach to religion and life."

Stephen Evans, National Secular Society campaigns manager, said that the educational purpose of religious education is so vague that it is open to exploitation by aggressive religious groups that are determined to reach children in schools.

He said: "The legal obligation on all schools to provide religious education, and a daily act of worship provides a foot in the door to organisations with evangelistic intentions. The ambiguity about the specific aims and purpose of religious education, and its low status in schools, provides an ideal environment for evangelical groups to exploit.

"Given the diminishing interest in religious observance amongst young people and their parents, it's easy to see why evangelical groups are so keen to access schools. But we have to question the appropriateness of state schools being used in this way. The presence of such groups undermines the rights of parents who rightly expect a state education for their child that doesn't run counter to their own religious and philosophical convictions."

Terry Sanderson, President of the National Secular Society, said:

"The targeting of our schools in this way by such dubious organisations must be tackled by the Department for Education. Most parents have absolutely no idea that such groups are present in their children's school until the child comes home and starts repeating the messages they've been given – sometimes about creationism, sometimes manipulative evangelical messages or literature that reinforces a very conservative religious outlook on life."

Mr Sanderson said the whole issue of religion in schools needs to be urgently reassessed.

"Our schools are becoming playgrounds for religious interests who are exploiting their opportunities to the full. The increasing number of faith schools is not going to make this any better. With fewer and fewer people regarding themselves as religious, it is clear that faith groups see schools as their best hope of reviving their fortunes. Children have to be there by law, they are a captive audience."

Read the report: Evangelism in state schools – the role of external visitors in publicly funded education (pdf)

See a list of evangelical groups active in schools

Research into the activities of evangelical groups in schools in ongoing. If you have information or concerns about external visitors in a particular school, please use the form on this page to provide details.

The NSS is calling for religious education to be replaced with a new National Curriculum subject that allows pupils to take a more objective and religiously neutral approach to the consideration of moral and ethical issues. Read our briefing paper setting out the need for comprehensive reform of RE.

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