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2:40 AM ET, April 9, 2011

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NationalJournal.com:
Congressional Sources: White House Reviewing Terms of Spending Deal  —  The likelihood of a war-time federal government shutdown—the first in American history—diminished dramatically on Friday night as all parties began reviewing, with the goal of approving, a broad array of cuts …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Conservatives Urge Boehner to Cut a Budget Deal and Move On  —  Michele Bachmann speaking to Tea Party demonstrators outside the US Capitol Thursday afternoon.  —  Are Republicans ready to declare victory in the shutdown showdown and move on?  —  For days, the assumption has been that Speaker John …
David Rogers / The Politico:
Government shutdown averted, White House and Republicans reach deal  —  After a long day of trading offers, the White House and House Republicans reached agreement Friday night on a budget framework that would cap 2011 appropriations near or below $1.050 trillion while cutting domestic …
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Report: Tentative Deal on Budget Being Reviewed by White House (UPDATE: Deal Reached)  —  Editor's Note: A short term deal has been reached, according to both Rep. Boehner and President Obama.  Bumped.  —  Marc Ambinder at National Journal breaks the news of a deal framework on the 2011 budget …
Rep. Michele Bachmann / RedState:
Not a Big Enough Fight  —  Since Republicans took the House majority in January I have been calling for our leadership to fight.  We must answer the bell that was rung last November when the American people called us to fight for deep cuts in spending, for the full repeal of ObamaCare …
Washington Post:
Congressional leaders close to agreement on budget deal, aides say  —  Gallery: Government shutdown 2011: Democrats and Republicans have so far failed to reach an agreement on the 2011 federal budget, increasing the likelihood of the first government shutdown in more than 15 years.
Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Schumer likens conservatives to a flea  —  Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) compared House conservatives to a flea Friday as rhetoric in the spending fight intensified.  —  Schumer, who has been criticizing Republicans all day, said in a floor speech Friday that conservatives were the flea controlling the dog …
Fox News:
Congress Strikes a Budget Deal to Avert Shutdown, Cutting $38.5B  —  Congressional leaders, with barely an hour to go before a federal government, announced late Friday night they had reached a deal to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year.  —  The deal includes $38.5 billion …
Associated Press:
Congress, White House reach deal to avoid government shutdown, cite ‘historic’ spending cuts  —  WASHINGTON — Perilously close to a government shutdown, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders forged agreement late Friday night on a deal to cut about $38 billion in federal spending and avert the first closure in 15 years.
Darren Goode / The Politico:
EPA riders axed, lawmakers say  —  An evolving deal to avoid a government shutdown would include a study of the economic effect of environmental regulations rather than Republican riders to block EPA rules on climate change and mountaintop mining, senior Senate Democrats and a key House Republican say.
Discussion: TPMDC, Firedoglake and Daily Kos
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
It's A Deal: Dems, Republicans Strike Spending Deal To Avoid Government Shutdown  —  They've got a deal!  —  Their negotiations have teetered erratically on the brink of collapse for weeks.  But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner have finally shaken hands …
Roll Call:
Deal Close to Avert Shutdown
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Biden gets fed up during spending talks
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
The Hill:
A budget deal has been reached
Discussion: Ballot Box and National Review
Carrie Dann / msnbc.com:
Reports point to a deal, but the clock's still ticking
Wall Street Journal:
Budget Talks Sputter; Parties Trade Barbs
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Deal at Last Minute Averts Shutdown; $38 Billion in Cuts to Spending This Year
Stan Collender / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
The Shutdown Problem This September is Going to be Even Worse
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Calculated Risk
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:   Optimism in the House  —  A House staffer emails:  —  Post Comment
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
The Brave and Serious Mr. Ryan  —  I mentioned earlier that if asked to choose an adjective to describe the budget plan presented by Rep. Paul Ryan, I would suggest “partisan” or “gimmicky,” as opposed to “serious” or “brave.”  Most budget proposals are both partisan and gimmicky, so this is no particular knock against Rep. Ryan.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Vote-Counting Error In Wisconsin Points to Incompetence, Not Conspiracy  —  When Kathy Nickolaus, the county clerk in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, spoke to the press on Thursday after revealing that she had failed to count more than 14,000 ballots in the hotly contested state supreme court election …
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iowahawk:
War Is No Excuse For Forgetting One's Manners  —  War Etiquette Tips  —  From Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)  —  As a lad in Charleston, I at first chafed whenever Mama would squire me to my weekly instructions at Miss Buelah Fontaine's Palmetto Street Finishing Academy for Young Gentlemen.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Moran gets irritable at veteran's interruption in town-hall meeting  —  The absent majority.  —  That headline is a little more fair than the suggestions that came to me this morning on a clip from a town-hall meeting held by Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) last night, in which the Congressman loses …
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Mrc Tv / Big Government:
Rep. Jim Moran Gets Testy With Veteran at Town Hall: Sit Down or Leave
Discussion: Pajamas Media
The United States Department of Justice:
Justice Department Requires Google Inc. to Develop and License Travel Software in Order to Proceed with Its Acquisition of ITA Software Inc. … WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that in order for Google Inc. to proceed with its proposed acquisition of ITA Software Inc. …
Joe Kovacs / WorldNetDaily:
Rush Limbaugh slammed for ‘avoiding’ eligibility  —  ‘Not 1 high Republican or you has ever really tried to nail’ Obama  —  Radio giant Rush Limbaugh came under fire today from a caller to his top-rated program accusing the host of avoiding the issue of Barack Obama's eligibility to be president.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Patricia Sellers / Fortune:
Cathie Black vows to come back: “I'm a warrior”  —  Few career falls are as swift and spectacular as Cathie Black's.  —  It took just 95 days for the former boss of Hearst Magazines — and alum of the Fortune Most Powerful Women list — to get ousted as chancellor of New York City public schools.
 
 
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Chris Moody / The Daily Caller:
Coming to bars across DC: Top 10 ‘government shutdown pick-up lines’
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Huck to GOP: Cut a deal
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump buys Kluge winery
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