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Democratic cracks open in debt-limit fight — For the past several weeks, Senate Democrats and the White House have shown a remarkable amount of unity in the controversial fight surrounding the debt ceiling. — Then came shutdown Day Seven. — Just as top Senate Democrats began to lay …
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Emma Dumain / Roll Call:
GOP Proposes New Supercommittee to Resolve Impasse (Updated) — Updated 12:12 a.m. | House Republicans will bring to the floor a bill to create a bipartisan, bicameral committee to address the current fiscal impasse that has shut down much of the government and threatens a debt default.
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
House GOP eyes supercommittee to settle shutdown, debt ceiling — The House will vote as soon as Tuesday on forming a special committee of House and Senate members to work out a deal on reopening the government and raising the nation's $16.7 trillion debt ceiling, multiple GOP sources told The Hill.
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Politico:
Power play: Harry Reid sidelined Joe Biden — When President Barack Obama laid out his strategy for the current debt-limit fight in a private meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this past summer, Reid stipulated one condition: No Joe Biden. — And while Biden attended …
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Shane Goldmacher / NationalJournal.com:
Harry Reid's Getting the Fight He Always Wanted
Harry Reid's Getting the Fight He Always Wanted
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Taegan Goddard's … and First Read
Caitlin Huey-Burns / Real Clear Politics:
John Boehner's New Headache — Catastrophic. Brutal. Dangerous. Terrifying. — That's how lawmakers, the administration and market analysts have described the prospect of default if Congress fails to raise the borrowing limit on the nation's $16.7 trillion debt by the Treasury Department's Oct. 17 deadline.
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Josh Eidelson / Salon:
Inside the mind of the Tea Party: Sen. Ron Johnson talks to Salon
Inside the mind of the Tea Party: Sen. Ron Johnson talks to Salon
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Four Reasons Debt Ceiling Breach Means Default
Four Reasons Debt Ceiling Breach Means Default
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Washington Post:
The House GOP has nothing to show for its government shutdown — WHAT HAVE House Republicans managed to accomplish in a week of government shutdown? — Damage the livelihood of millions of Americans? Check. Government secretaries, food-truck operators, cleaners who work in motels near national parks: They're all hurting.
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Boehner: Obama gambling with economy by refusing to talk
Boehner: Obama gambling with economy by refusing to talk
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Politico and Shakesville
Leslie Bentz / CNN:
Stewart to Sebelius on health care law “Am I a stupid man?” — (CNN) - “The Daily Show” took a more serious turn Monday night when host Jon Stewart introduced his guest for the evening, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. — Sebelius, who has been on a media blitz …
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Bloomberg:
Insurers Getting Faulty Data From U.S. Health Exchanges — Insurers are getting faulty and incomplete data from the new U.S.-run health exchange, which may mean some Americans won't be covered even after they sign up for an insurance plan. — While it's not clear how widespread the problem is …
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Republicans Didn't Sabotage Health Exchanges, Obama Did
Republicans Didn't Sabotage Health Exchanges, Obama Did
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Kathleen Sebelius / USA Today:
HealthCare.gov simple, user-friendly — Engineers are working day and night on upgrades to cope with high demand. — CONNECT — When the Health Insurance Marketplace opened last week, demand was so high, it exceeded even optimists' expectations. On the first day alone …
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Alyssa Brown / Gallup:
Weekly Drop in U.S. Economic Confidence Largest Since '08 — Decline of 12 points to -34 is largest since Lehman Brothers collapsed — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' confidence in the economy has deteriorated more in the past week during the partial government shutdown …
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Carol Rosenberg / MiamiHerald.com:
Capitol Hill lawyer chosen as Pentagon's ‘Guantánamo closer’ — The Obama administration has chosen a former U.S. Marine and seasoned congressional lawyer to serve as the special envoy for Guantánamo closure at the Defense Department, the Miami Herald has learned.
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Guardian, Defense One, Lawfare, The Gateway Pundit and Politico
Wall Street Journal:
The Attorney General tries to reverse a Supreme Court ruling by the back door. — For Eric Holder, American racial history is frozen in the 1960s. The Supreme Court ruled in June that a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is no longer justified due to racial progress …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Why the Government Shutdown Isn't Anywhere Near Over—in 1 Graph — Two parties, divided by a common loathing — Americans are perfectly, identically, symmetrically split on whether the GOP is justified in demanding major changes to Obamacare in exchange for funding the rest of the government, according to a new Pew Research poll.
Alexander Burns / Politico:
POLITICO poll: Government shutdown backlash boosts Terry McAuliffe — Democrat Terry McAuliffe has opened up a significant lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the Virginia governor's race amid broad public disapproval of the federal government shutdown, according to a POLITICO poll of the 2013 gubernatorial election.
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archpedi.jamanetwork.com:
Prevalence Rates of Male and Female Sexual Violence Perpetrators in a National Sample of Adolescents — ONLINE FIRST — Michele L. Ybarra, MPH1; Kimberly J. Mitchell, PhD2 — JAMA Pediatr. — Tables — References — ABSTRACT — Importance Sexual violence can emerge in adolescence …
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New York Post:
Biker cop joined in SUV beatdown, hit vehicle — Alexian Lien after he was attacked by motorcyclists on Sept., 28, 2013 — An off-duty undercover cop who had claimed he took no active role as fellow bikers pulled a Manhattan dad from his SUV and beat him to a pulp was actually pounding …
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Sean Wilentz / New York Times:
Obama and the Debt — PRINCETON, N.J. — THE Republicans in the House of Representatives who declare that they may refuse to raise the debt limit threaten to do more than plunge the government into default. They are proposing a blatant violation of the 14th Amendment, which states that …
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National Review and normblog
Steven Nelson / US News:
‘Truckers for the Constitution’ Plan to Slow D.C. Beltway, Arrest Congressmen — Police must detain ‘accessories’ to ‘treason’ or truckers will, organizer says — Tractor-trailer drivers will intentionally clog the inner loop of the Washington, D.C., beltway beginning on the morning of Oct. 11 …
ThinkProgress:
Exclusive Gyms For Members Of Congress Deemed ‘Essential,’ Remain Open During Shutdown — Head Start programs have been shuttered, small businesses can't get loans and hundreds of thousands of federal government employees are furloughed. But the exclusive gyms available only to members …
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