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Reporter: Steve Strunsky

The head of the Transportation Security Administration is likely to get a mixed reception this afternoon, when he’s scheduled to testify before Congress on his recent decision to allow small knives on commercial airliners.

Reporter - Ali Rockett

PEMBROKE - Tribal leaders are reviewing a draft bill seeking federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina in hopes of introducing the legislation next month.

Chairman Paul Brooks and several Tribal Council members recently met with U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson of Concord, whose 8th Congressional District is home to most of tribe's 55,000 members.

Hudson, a freshman Republican, has taken the mantle from Democratic Rep. Mike McIntyre, whose 7th District no longer includes parts of Robeson County where the tribe is based.

Last week’s announcement that pocket knives, golf clubs and other potentially dangerous, even deadly items, could be carried onto airliners has sparked a fierce backlash from a long list of constituents including flight attendants, pilots, air marshals, federal lawmakers, passengers and at least one airline CEO.

Now another powerful group is ready to announce it is joining the list today: the 47,000 Transportation Security Administration screeners in whose name the change was made.

Reporter - Laura Edington

U.S. Representative Richard Hudson, from North Carolina’s 8th Congressional, is looking to permanently eliminate the death tax, also known as the inheritance tax or the estate tax, that is imposed on the transfer of taxable estates of a deceased person.

Hudson introduced H.R. 483, the Farmers Against Crippling Taxes (FACT) Act, to the Congressional Committee on Feb. 4 after he spent three days talking with farmers and hearing their concerns about policies that hinder them.