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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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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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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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CNN:
‘Tremendous progress’: Senate has a plan, but what will House do? — Washington (CNN) — [Breaking news update, 9:51 a.m. ET] — House Republicans will offer their own plan on Tuesday to temporarily reopen the government and raise the federal debt ceiling while also making changes to Obamacare …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems to House GOP: The answer is No
Dems to House GOP: The answer is No
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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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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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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.
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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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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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Leon Panetta Blames Both Sides For Fiscal Crisis — Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday blamed the current fiscal crisis on both the White House and Republican leaders, lamenting the lack of trust between the two parties. — Panetta said that President should not walk away from negotiations.
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Panetta rebukes Obama's handling of shutdown
Panetta rebukes Obama's handling of shutdown
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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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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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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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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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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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Jonathan Capehart / PostPartisan:
Ugly rebel yell in front of the White House
Ugly rebel yell in front of the White House
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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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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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utsandiego.com:
Filner faces 3 counts in harassment case — Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner will face state charges this morning of false imprisonment and battery. — According to San Diego Superior Court, the former mayor faces a felony charge of false imprisonment by violence, fraud, menace and deceit and and two misdemeanor counts of battery.
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