From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh.Air traffic controllers are being spared further furloughsafter government felt the rough of a traveling public affected by hundreds of flight delays.Today the U.S. House voted 361: 41 in favor of a measureallowing the Federal Aviation Administration to tap into unused funds to pay their air traffic controllers.The bill passed the Senate late yesterdayand President Obama is expected to sign the legislation today.Today, Barack Obama became the first sitting president to address Planned Parenthood's annual conference.NPR's Ari Schapiro reportsPresident Obama assured the organization that he has their back and that they are going anywhere.The president used this speech to promote his health care law.This fall people can begin signing up for insurance exchanges to get health coverage.Obama asked for Planned Parenthood's help spread in the world, especially, among women.And he said it won't be easy acknowledging the push back that the organization's leader Cecile Richards has described."Cecile describes Planned Parenthood as the only organization that she has ever been atwhere there are opponents who, in her words,literally get up every day trying to figure out how to keep us from doing our work.Now if she'd worked in the administration,she'd be more familiar with this phenomenon but.."Obama argued that attacks on Planned Parenthood are really attacks on women.Ari Schapiro, NPR News, the White House.President Obama says he won't permit the use of chemical weapons against Syrian civiliansbut says the U.S. evidence of that is preliminary.
