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Robert Costa / National Review:
House Conservatives Revolt — Later this morning, House Republicans will meet in the Capitol's basement. The chief topic of conversation: the emerging Senate deal. But before the meeting even begins, House conservatives are bashing it behind the scenes, and they're pushing the leadership to reject the compromise.
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Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
Ted Cruz, House Republicans Meet in Secret at Tortilla Coast — Updated Oct. 15, 11:58 a.m. | Sen. Ted Cruz met with roughly 15 to 20 House Republicans for around two hours late Monday night at the Capitol Hill watering hole Tortilla Coast. — The group appeared to be talking strategy …
New York Times:
House G.O.P. Backs Off Plan, Leaving Fiscal Talks in Limbo — WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders struggled late Tuesday morning to forge a new proposal to reopen the government and change the president's health care law, after a plan presented behind closed doors to the Republican rank …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
The New House Plan — changes the Senate plan in several ways that are designed to make it more palatable to Republicans. The executive branch would not be able to shift funds to soften the blow of sequestration, as in the Senate bill; House appropriators want Congress to stay in charge of how the money gets spent.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems to House GOP: The answer is No — House Republican leaders, apparently desperate to prevent any House vote on the emerging bipartisan Senate deal to end the crisis, have rolled out a new plan designed to reopen the government and lift the debt limit, but on their own terms.
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Politico:
Budget battle escalates — House Republican leaders scrambled Tuesday afternoon to rewrite their bill to lift the debt ceiling and reopen government in a bid to attract enough conservative support to ensure passage. — In a closed-party meeting Tuesday morning, the House GOP leadership announced …
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
John Boehner makes his final move
John Boehner makes his final move
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Tom Cohen / CNN:
House GOP disarray surfaces over possible shutdown plan
House GOP disarray surfaces over possible shutdown plan
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Mike Allen / Politico:
2 DAYS TO DEBT DEADLINE; SHUTDOWN DAY 15 — SENATE NEAR DEAL …
2 DAYS TO DEBT DEADLINE; SHUTDOWN DAY 15 — SENATE NEAR DEAL …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
House hopes to move own debt plan, but may not have the votes
House hopes to move own debt plan, but may not have the votes
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Patrick Brennan / National Review:
How the House GOP Plans to Sell Their Version Of the Senate Deal
How the House GOP Plans to Sell Their Version Of the Senate Deal
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Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
What Barack Obama, Republicans get with a deal
What Barack Obama, Republicans get with a deal
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
With deadline looming, House GOP struggles to build support for new debt, funding plan
With deadline looming, House GOP struggles to build support for new debt, funding plan
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Rielle Hunter / The Huffington Post:
I, Rielle Hunter, Apologize — I behaved badly. That may seem obvious to you but it's taken me a long time to admit that, even to myself. For years I was so viciously attacked by the media and the world that I felt like a victim. I now realize that the attacks are actually beside the point.
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Esquire:
13 THINGS THAT DEFINE THE NEW AMERICAN CENTER — It is bigger than you think... An exclusive Esquire-NBC News survey shows us that everything we are told about politics in America today—that there is no middle ground between left and right, blue and red, us and them—is wrong.
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Tony Dokoupil / NBCNews:
The New American Center: Why our nation isn't as divided as we think
The New American Center: Why our nation isn't as divided as we think
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Felix Salmon:
The default has already begun — The big question in Washington this week is whether, in the words of the NYT, we're going to see “a legislative failure and an economic catastrophe that could ripple through financial markets, foreign capitals, corporate boardrooms, state budget offices and the bank accounts of everyday investors”.
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The Atlantic Online:
What This Cruel War Was Over — It is not so much the behavior of the lone idiot that matters, but the tenor of the crowd around him. — On Sunday, a group of conservative radicals held a protest in Washington. Eventually they walked to the White House.
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Don Kaplan / NY Daily News:
'The Kelly File's' surge is legit, Nielsen says — MSNBC had questioned Fox News show's 100% ratings increase — Megyn Kelly hosts the Fox News Channel's new show “The Kelly File.” — Nielsen has conducted an investigation into the ratings for Megyn Kelly's new Fox News Channel show …
Mark Duell / Daily Mail:
Hillary who? Bloody-minded London traffic warden defies five furious secret service agents to give Hillary Clinton a ticket — This is the extraordinary moment that Hillary Clinton's security staff got into an argument with a traffic warden after he issued her car with a parking ticket.
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Ex-Rep. Filner pleads guilty to three charges — Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) pleaded guilty on Tuesday to false imprisonment and battery, after he resigned in disgrace earlier this year due to sexual harassment allegations. — As part of an agreement with prosecutors …
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
McAuliffe leads Cuccinelli by 7 points as Va. voters blame GOP for shutdown — Virginia voters looking for somebody to blame for the government shutdown impacting federal workers in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads have settled on gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli …
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Panetta rebukes Obama's handling of shutdown — Leon Panetta served in Washington with nine presidents, starting with Lyndon Johnson. He has been a member of Congress, Office of Management and Budget director, White House chief of staff, director of the Central Intelligence Agency and secretary …
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Washington Post:
NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally — The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials …
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Associated Press:
Murkowski: No Alaskan yet enrolled in health care exchange — Facebook Twitter Google Plus Reddit E-mail Print — JUNEAU, ALASKA — No one from Alaska has enrolled in the new health care exchange, and a U.S. senator wants weekly updates on future enrollments.
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UC Berkeley Labor Center:
FAST FOOD, POVERTY WAGES: THE PUBLIC COST OF LOW-WAGE JOBS IN THE FAST-FOOD INDUSTRY — Executive Summary — Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of enrollments in America's major public benefits programs are — from working families. But many of them work in jobs that pay wages so low that their paychecks do
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