On the Radar 
Banning Flavored E-Cigarettes
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will seek to ban the sale of all flavored e-cigarettes in an effort to discourage youth vaping.
"We are going to have to do something about it," Trump said after meeting with health policy advisers, adding that vaping was a "new problem in the country."
Recently, a sixth person in the U.S. died from lung disease related to vaping. And exactly one-year ago, the FDA declared teenage use of e-cigarettes an epidemic.
A number of cities – and one state – have banned the sale of flavored tobacco products.
Last week, First Lady Melania Trump tweeted:
"I am deeply concerned about the growing epidemic of e-cigarette use in our children. We need to do all we can to protect the public from tobacco-related disease and death, and prevent e-cigarettes from becoming an on-ramp to nicotine addiction for a generation of youth."
Do you support banning flavored e-cigarettes?
Abortion & Border Wall ‘Poison Pills’
Congress returned to the Capitol on Monday with lawmakers poised to start the process of allocating the $1.371 trillion in discretionary spending they agreed to this summer in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019, which was made possible thanks to a handshake deal to leave out poison pill riders.
By the end of Tuesday, however, partisan fighting over poison pills forced the Senate Appropriations Committee take two of the four bills it planned to markup Thursday off the agenda―leaving lawmakers with even less time to avoid a partial government shutdown on October 1st.
A (D)-introduced amendment would block the Trump administration’s Title X rule while an (R) amendment would give the Trump administration an extra $12 billion for the wall.
Should the Senate avoid "poison pill" riders in upcoming spending bills?
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