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Paul Courson / CNN:
Peter King: Ted Cruz ‘is a fraud’ — Washington (CNN) - The government shutdown showdown is getting ugly. — Republican Rep. Peter King said Friday that his Republican colleague in the Senate, Ted Cruz, “is a fraud” who will “no longer have any influence in the Republican Party” …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Actually, Senate GOP can't filibuster to defund Obamacare — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL CONGRESS OBAMACARE SENATE HEALTH CARE TED CRUZ — Senate Republicans, along with GOP lawmakers in the House, know that Sen. Ted Cruz and his colleagues don't have the votes to pass a continuing resolution to defund Obamacare.
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Tim Alberta / NationalJournal.com:
Inside Boehner's Plan To Avoid Shutdown (And Wound Obamacare) — Forget Friday's big spending bill vote. House leaders know the Senate will reject it and are ready to respond. Here's the GOP playbook. — House Republicans have orchestrated a master plan to avoid a government shutdown …
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House votes 230-189 to fund government, defund ObamaCare — The House on Friday passed legislation that defunds ObamaCare but would keep the government running through mid-December. — The legislation was approved on a party line 230-189 vote, with Rep. Scott Rigell (Va.) the only GOP no vote.
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Ted Cruz Punches Back — Even among Republicans, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is one of Washington's most divisive figures. Activists love him, but leadership staffers and many of his colleagues can't stand him — especially his latest effort to connect a government-spending bill with the defunding of Obamacare.
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
House passes spending bill to defund Obamacare — House Republicans passed their stopgap funding bill Friday to keep government open while terminating the new health care law, setting up a final showdown next week with Senate Democrats and President Obama who have firmly rejected that.
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Politico:
House passes bill defunding Obamacare — Game on. — The House passed a bill 230-189 Friday morning that would keep the government running for three months - and defund the health care overhaul that is President Barack Obama's signature legislative achievement.
New York Times:
Conservatives Take Turns Standing Up to the Speaker — WASHINGTON — Those in the circle of fiery House conservatives who are spearheading a fiscal showdown that threatens to shut down the government see themselves in vaunted company. — “It only takes one with passion — look at Rosa Parks …
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Reminder: Obamacare Will Continue If Government Shuts Down — Just to be clear: Obamacare implementation will likely continue even if the government shuts down this fall as Congress fights over the law's funding. — That was the conclusion of a Congressional Research Service report sent to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) back in July.
Yahoo! News:
House sends government spending bill to the Senate without Obamacare funding
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Alex Roarty / NationalJournal.com:
The Republicans Who Fear a Shutdown
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Politico and First Read
Bryan Koenig / CNN:
Rep. King on defund plan: ‘Custer, Kamikaze’
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yosemite.epa.gov:
EPA Proposes Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants / Agency takes important step to reduce carbon pollution from power plants as part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan — Contact Information: Julia P. Valentine (NEWS MEDIA ONLY), valentine.julia@epa.gov, 202-564-0496 …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Administration to Press Ahead With Carbon Limits
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The real Navy Yard scandal — In the liberal remake of “Casablanca,” the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to “round up the usual weapons.” — It's always the weapon and never the shooter. Twelve people are murdered in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Fault Mental Health System Most for Gun Violence
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Firm that ran background check on Snowden also vetted Navy Yard shooter
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Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
Navy Yard rampage began with gunman's colleagues, sources and witnesses say
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Not all mass shootings are equal in the eyes of the media or the public
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Wall Street Journal:
Pricing Glitch Afflicts Rollout of Online Health Exchanges … Less than two weeks before the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the federal health overhaul, the government's software can't reliably determine how much people need to pay for coverage, according to insurance executives and people familiar with the program.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Crazy Party — Early this year, Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, made headlines by telling his fellow Republicans that they needed to stop being the “stupid party.” Unfortunately, Mr. Jindal failed to offer any constructive suggestions about how they might do that.
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Tamara Cohen / Daily Mail:
World's top climate scientists told to ‘cover up’ the fact that the Earth's temperature hasn't risen for the last 15 years — Scientists working on the most authoritative study on climate change were urged to cover up the fact that the world's temperature hasn't risen for the last 15 years, it is claimed.
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Owen Bennett / Daily Express:
What climate change? Fewer people than EVER believe the world is really warming up
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Rand Paul: ‘We are winning’ like Charlie Sheen — Sen. Rand Paul said Thursday that Republicans are like Charlie Sheen and are actually “winning” despite criticisms this week of party disarray over a budget strategy that would defund Obamacare, according to reports.
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Andrew Rafferty / First Read:
Rand Paul says recent GOP wins a roadmap for party's future
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Politico:
Pelosi unplugged — Striking a tone of disgust, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi ridicules the GOP as obsessed with its loathing of President Obama and hell-bent on hurting him politically, regardless the cost. She assigns little to no blame to the president (even though Democrats privately …
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Hassan Rouhani / Washington Post:
Why Iran seeks constructive engagement — Hassan Rouhani is president of Iran. — Three months ago, my platform of “prudence and hope” gained a broad, popular mandate. Iranians embraced my approach to domestic and international affairs because they saw it as long overdue.
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Washington Post:
Americans skeptical, confused about health care law's implementation — Poll Questions
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Damla Ergun / ABC News:
Obamacare Arrives 3 Years Later, Little Understood and Not Well-Liked
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James Chapman / Daily Mail:
Poison at the heart of Labour: Damaging questions for Miliband and Balls as explosive book reveals Brown's spin doctor ran smear campaigns from Downing Street — The toxic culture of spin, smears and feuding at the heart of New Labour is laid bare today in an explosive political memoir.
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