Jindal ends bid for GOP nomination
BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal dropped out of the 2016 race for president Tuesday, ending a campaign that failed to gain much support, especially in early-voting Iowa.
“I’ve come to the realization that this is not my time,” Jindal said on Fox News Channel as he announced the decision to suspend his campaign.
The 44-year-old governor said he wasn’t ready to endorse another candidate, but he intended to support the eventual Republican presidential nominee.
Term-limited and out of office in January, Jindal said he will work with a think tank he started a few years ago, called America Next, to devise what he called “a blueprint for making this the American century.”
“Going forward, I believe we have to be the party of growth and we can never stop being the party that believes in opportunity. We cannot settle for the left’s view of envy and division,” Jindal said.
House votes to let tribes set labor rules
WASHINGTON – Native American tribes could have more autonomy in setting their own labor rules under legislation passed by the House.
The House voted 249-177 on Tuesday to give the National Labor Relations Board less authority to oversee labor organization on American Indian reservations. Republicans who supported the bill said it would free struggling tribes from government overreach.
Many tribes have supported the bill, saying the labor oversight could harm developing American Indian economies and violate their sovereign rights. They noted that some tribes have encouraged labor organization on their own.
The Obama administration opposed the bill, saying it would not do enough to protect employees at businesses on Indian lands.
Associated Press
