memeorandum: House hopes to move own debt plan, but may not have the votes (Russell Berman/The Hill)

4:15 PM ET, October 15, 2013

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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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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:

House GOPer: We're Gonna Make Them An Offer They Can't Refuse — Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) told reporters Tuesday that part of the House Republican calculus in its plan to re-open the government and raise the debt limit was trying to leverage the Thursday default deadline to their advantage in their back-and-forth with the Senate.

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Brian Beutler / Salon:

John Boehner makes his final move — A massive GOP retreat — but a greedy one — This is probably the penultimate twist in the debt limit saga, both because there isn't much time left, and because this is John Boehner's last real move. — House Republican leaders, not content with back-seat status …

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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 …

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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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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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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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Russell Berman / The Hill:
House hopes to move own debt plan, but may not have the votes

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Tom Cohen / CNN:
House GOP disarray surfaces over possible shutdown plan

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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo: Chaos Ensues As Conservatives Tank House GOP's New Debt Plan

Patrick Brennan / National Review:
How the House GOP Plans to Sell Their Version Of the Senate Deal

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ABC News:
Senate, House on Separate Paths to Deal

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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

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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

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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.

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Pacilin / California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris:

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces Guilty Plea by Former San Diego Mayor — SAN DIEGO - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has plead guilty to one count of felony false imprisonment and two counts of misdemeanor battery.

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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Ex-Rep. Filner pleads guilty to three charges

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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 …

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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:

As Debt Limit Deadline Nears, Concern Ticks Up But Skepticism Persists — Despite Image Problems, GOP Holds Ground on Key Issues — With just two days to go before an Oct. 17 deadline to raise the nation's debt limit, 51% of the public views a rise in the nation's debt limit as …

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Elizabeth Titus / Politico:

Four new Senate polls - Citizens United PAC endorses Simpson challenger - Low interest in MA-05 primary - Debates in New York, New Jersey - Booker, Lonegan in home stretch — By Elizabeth Titus (etitus@politico.com; Twitter: @emtitus) — EXCLUSIVE: GOP POLLS FOR ALASKA, ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA …

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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
McAuliffe leads Cuccinelli by 7 points as Va. voters blame GOP for shutdown

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Morgan Smith / The Texas Tribune:

Dewhurst Calls for Obama's Impeachment … During an appearance at a Tarrant County Tea Party candidate forum, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst called for President Obama to be impeached, a spokesman for his campaign confirmed Monday night. — Dewhurst's comments were first reported on Twitter …

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Emily Bazelon / Slate:

The affirmative-action case liberals deserve to lose. — Lucky Elena Kagan. She gets to sit out this year's affirmative action case at the Supreme Court, probably because she worked on a related matter when she was solicitor general. Part of me wishes I could skip it, too.

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Brian Resnick / National Journal:

Seriously, Reopen the Government or a Pandemic Could Kill Us All — Like the military, the CDC protects us from outside threats. So why is it so severely furloughed? — What would happen if a H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic occured during the shutdown? (AFP / Getty Images)

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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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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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