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Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
Ted Cruz, House Republicans Meet in Secret at Tortilla Coast — 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 about how they should respond …
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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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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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Politico:
House Republicans to move own bill — House Republican leaders on Tuesday will try to move their own bill to open the government, lift the debt ceiling and enact a host of health-care related policies just days before the U.S. government reaches its borrowing limit.
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Mediaite and Outside the Beltway
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
The New House Plan — changes the Senate plan in several ways …
The New House Plan — changes the Senate plan in several ways …
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PoliticusUSA and Hot Air
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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Washington Post:
Lawmakers: House, Senate working on competing plans
Lawmakers: House, Senate working on competing plans
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Ted Cruz: Unsure if he'd block vote on Senate deal
Ted Cruz: Unsure if he'd block vote on Senate deal
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Mike Allen / Politico:
2 DAYS TO DEBT DEADLINE; SHUTDOWN DAY 15 — SENATE NEAR DEAL to postpone both cliffs to next year — HOUSE UNDER PRESSURE: 'won't be pretty' — WILL REPUBLICANS BE LEFT with little but bad polls? — DATA DU JOUR - DISapproval for handling of budget crisis, in new ABC News/WashPost poll …
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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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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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New York Times:
Senators Near Fiscal Deal, but the House Is Uncertain — WASHINGTON — Senate leaders neared the completion Monday night of a bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown while the rest of the world braced for the possibility of an American default that could set off a global financial disaster.
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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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 …
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
A Fox Is Living on the White House Grounds and No One Can Catch It Because of the Shutdown — Really. — A fox. Unfortunately, no pictures of the White House fox are available. (jans canon/Flickr) — Illustrators of children's books, here is your next story:
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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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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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Politico, The Daily Caller, Washington Wire, Right Turn and Hot Air
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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Politico, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway and National Review
Simone Weichselbaum / NY Daily News:
Holy war in Harlem: Pastors want Al Sharpton out — Four prominent clergymen invited over 100 churches to unify in an attempt dethrone Reverend Al Sharpton. — (left to right) Carl Washington, Pastor New Mt Zion Baptist Church, Kris Erskine, Pastor Bethany Baptist Church and Patrick Young …
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Associated Press:
British authorities break up terror plot — British law enforcement agencies averted a plot to orchestrate a large-scale terror attack similar to the assault on Kenya's Westgate mall, an official said Monday. — Police were questioning four men in their 20s on suspicion of terrorism …
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Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Three GOP Faces Who Are Outshining Their Party — Paul, Christie and Ryan Manage to Improve Their Standing During the Shutdown — At this point, it's both an understatement and a statement of the obvious to say the government-shutdown showdown hasn't been good for the Republican Party.
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Understanding The Obamacare “Reinsurance” Fee — A provision of the Affordable Care Act known as the “Transitional Reinsurance Fee” seems to be in the mix as Senators negotiate a way out of the budget impasse. This is a very obscure element of the law that's important to a number of interest groups …