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Wall Street Journal:
White House's Hard Line on Shutdown, Debt Ceiling Has Risks Attached … President Barack Obama is sticking to his stance that he won't negotiate with Republicans over the government shutdown or the higher-stakes fight over the federal debt ceiling. — The question, for Republicans …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Senior Admin. Official: 'We Are Winning...It Doesn't Really Matter to Us' When Shutdown Ends
Senior Admin. Official: 'We Are Winning...It Doesn't Really Matter to Us' When Shutdown Ends
Politico:
Bad blood: Four feuding leaders
Bad blood: Four feuding leaders
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems move to force Republicans to reopen the government — House Democratic leaders believe they have hit on a new way to potentially force House Republican leaders into allowing a vote on a “clean CR” funding the government without any defunding of Obamacare attached.
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Politico:
Democrats tap procedural trick to force House CR vote — House Democrats will use a parliamentary procedure to try to break a logjam over government funding and bring a “clean” continuing resolution to the floor, according to senior Democratic lawmakers and leadership aides.
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Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
Democrats Plan to Discharge GOP Bill to End Shutdown (Updated) — Miller, right, is heading up a Democratic plan to end the government shutdown by bringing up a GOP measure through a discharge petition. (Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call) — Updated: 3:13 p.m. |
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
House Democrats Propose Hail Mary Strategy For Ending Shutdown — House Democrats think they've found a legislative ploy to bring the Senate-passed temporary spending bill to the House floor and end the government shutdown. — The move amounts to a legislative Hail Mary …
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Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Cruz: GOP Already Compromised By Demanding To Defund, Not Repeal Obamacare
Cruz: GOP Already Compromised By Demanding To Defund, Not Repeal Obamacare
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Robert Costa / National Review:
The Emerging Offer — It hasn't been announced, and you won't hear about it today, but the final volley of the fiscal impasse, at least for House Republicans, is already being brokered. And according to my top sources — both members and senior aides — it won't end with a clean CR, or with a sprawling, 2011-style budget agreement.
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
How to Make a Non-Disastrous Debt-Limit Deal — We are nearing the limit of the borrowing authority that Congress has given the federal government. — Almost everyone agrees that the debt ceiling needs to be raised. Not even the flintiest conservative has advanced a plan for bringing …
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
Dumbest extortion attempt ever: Republican scheme's perverse logic
Dumbest extortion attempt ever: Republican scheme's perverse logic
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ThinkProgress:
Boehner Suggests Taking The Country Into Default Unless Republicans Get Additional Spending Cuts
Boehner Suggests Taking The Country Into Default Unless Republicans Get Additional Spending Cuts
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Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
Boehner Vows He Won't ‘Roll Over’ to Obama, Democrats (Updated)
Boehner Vows He Won't ‘Roll Over’ to Obama, Democrats (Updated)
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Peter Suderman / Reason:
Obamacare Poster Boy Chad Henderson and His Dad Haven't Signed Up for Obamacare, Says His Father — An exclusive Reason.com interview with Bill Henderson. — Chad Henderson is the media's poster boy for Obamacare. Reporters struggled this week to find individuals who said they had been able …
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Is Obamacare's celebrity enrollee actually signed up? — And so Chadgate begins. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) — Yesterday, Chad Henderson became a verified Obamacare celebrity. The 21-year-old from Georgia was hounded by reporters after Enroll America identified him as someone …
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Jeffrey Young / The Huffington Post:
These Two People Beat The Glitches To Sign Up For Obamacare
These Two People Beat The Glitches To Sign Up For Obamacare
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Rare health exchange enrollee gets 15 minutes of Obamacare fame
Rare health exchange enrollee gets 15 minutes of Obamacare fame
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John Schlageter / milarch.org:
Shutdown Impacts Chapel Services — If the government shutdown continues through the weekend, there will be no Catholic priest to celebrate Mass this Sunday in the chapels at some U.S. military installations where non-active-duty priests serve as government contractors.
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NBCNews:
Woman in DC chase may have thought Obama was stalking her, sources say — Investigators have found indications that the woman who led authorities on a chase from the White House to the Capitol before she was shot to death by police thought that President Barack Obama was stalking her, law enforcement sources told NBC News.
Michael C. Bender / Bloomberg:
Tea Party's Ross Says Debt Worth Yielding on Obamacare — U.S. Representative Dennis Ross, a Florida Republican, said he would support a broad spending deal that didn't include changes to the health-care law, becoming the first Tea Party-backed House lawmaker to publicly back off the fight …
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Economic Confidence Plummets as Gov't Shutdown Begins — Current -34 three-day average is worst since December 2011 — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' confidence in the U.S. economy has dropped sharply as the partial government shutdown caused by Congress' inability to pass a spending bill has become reality.
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Fox News:
Arizona Gov. Brewer, local businesses fight to reopen Grand Canyon — Oct. 1, 2013: Sebastian Ramirez, 27, of Austin, Texas, hikes out of the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon National Park.AP — With the partial suspension of U.S. government services showing no signs of ending …
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Harvard University:
Fossil Fuel Divestment Statement — Climate change represents one of the world's most consequential challenges. I very much respect the concern and commitment shown by the many members of our community who are working to confront this problem. I, as well as members of our Corporation Committee …
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Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed:
Obama And Biden Go Out For Lunch — President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden walked out of the White House to grab lunch at a nearby restaurant. — The two headed for Taylor Gourmet, a sandwich shop a few blocks away. — Via taylorgourmet.com — Cable news had absolutely no idea what was going on.
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Newt Gingrich Wants The Government Out Of The Panda Cam Business — Former Speaker of the House and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has has a lifelong love affair with zoos. Because of this, TPM wondered how he was handling the closure of the Smithsonian's National Zoo …
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Thomas Mann / CNN:
GOP House can't claim to speak for America — Editor's note: Tom Mann is a senior in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and the W. Averell Harriman Chair. His most recent book, co-authored with Norman Ornstein and now out in paperback, is “It's Even Worse Than It Looks …
Baton Rouge news, sports and entertainment …:
Wallace indicted again in killing of Angola guard in 1972 by bill lodge blodge@theadvocate.com — New Orleans resident Herman J. Wallace, released from a life sentence Tuesday by a federal court order, was reindicted Thursday by a West Feliciana Parish grand jury in the 1972 murder of a prison security officer.
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