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House to vote first on Senate plan — The House will vote first on an emerging Senate proposal to open government and lift the debt ceiling, a move that would expedite bipartisan legislation developed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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John Boehner to Willie: 'We Just Didn't Win' — ( Tri-State ) - US Speaker of the House John Boehner was on with Bill Cunningham on Wednesday afternoon. — He says he will bring the deal reached in the US Senate to a vote in the House, and he's encouraging Republicans to vote for the plan.
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The Atlantic Online:
Republicans Shut Down the Government for Nothing — After two weeks of closed government and a debt-limit freakout, a deal is on the horizon—and the GOP has little to show for the crisis caused by its demands. — With a deal to reopen the government apparently imminent Wednesday …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz Admits Budget Standoff Was All About Building Fundraising Lists — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) conceded on Wednesday that he would not hold up a vote on an emerging Senate deal to re-open the federal government and avert federal default, but admitted that the three-week long budget standoff …
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Speaker.gov:
Statement on Bipartisan Senate Agreement to Reopen Government, Avoid Default … WASHINGTON, DC - House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement regarding the bipartisan Senate agreement to reopen the federal government and avoid a national default:
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New York Times:
At 11th Hour, G.O.P. Blinks in Standoff — WASHINGTON — Congressional Republican leaders conceded defeat Wednesday in their budget fight with President Obama over the new health care law, agreeing to support a reopening of the government and a lifting of the nation's borrowing authority in exchange for future budget negotiations.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: Boehner to take vote on Senate compromise 1st, pass it with Dem votes
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Washington Times:
Senate leaders announce agreement to end shutdown, raise debt
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Joshua Green / Businessweek:
Why Ted Cruz Might Still Try to Force a Default
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Prepares For Surrender On Debt Ceiling And Shutdown
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Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Senate Leaders ‘Very Close’ to Debt, Shutdown Deal
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Houston Chronicle:
Why we miss Kay Bailey Hutchison — Things surely would look far different with Sen. Hutchison in office in the nation's capital — Does anyone else miss Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison? — We're not sure how much difference one person could make in the toxic, chaotic, hyperpartisan atmosphere in Washington …
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Wall Street Journal:
It's time to wrap up this comedy of political errors. — The Beltway budget melodrama rolls on to its predictable and dreary end, with both sides now split over increasingly small differences. None of this is worth a partial government shutdown, much less the risk of a debt default, and both sides are looking like losers.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Matt Drudge Predicts Pelosi Will Be Next Speaker — Conservative news aggregator Matt Drudge seemed to suggest Wednesday that Democrats will win back control of the House of Representatives next year. — In a message to his more than 200,000 followers on Twitter, Drudge predicted …
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Houston Chronicle Expresses Regrets For Endorsing Cruz
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Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Why Ted Cruz's Hometown Newspaper May Regret Endorsement
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Carney: Immigration push won't distract from ObamaCare focus — White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday that an expected push on immigration reform would not distract from the administration's “around the clock” focus on fixing glitches with the implementation of ObamaCare.
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Obama Has Already Won The Shutdown Fight And He's Coming For Immigration Next
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
White House: ‘There are no winners here’
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
Bridge Burning and Bridge Building — House Republicans have signaled they are giving up. — They'll merge their ideas with Mitch McConnell's ideas. The result will be a funded government, raised debt ceiling, and nothing done with Obamacare. — Throughout this fight, Harry Reid has outsmarted Mitch McConnell.
Emily Yoffe / Slate:
College Women: Stop Getting Drunk — It's closely associated with sexual assault. And yet we're reluctant to tell women to stop doing it. — In one awful high-profile case after another—the U.S. Naval Academy; Steubenville, Ohio; now the allegations in Maryville, Mo.—we read about a young woman …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Shutdown hurts GOP Senate chances — New PPP polls of 6 key Senate races that will determine control of the body after next year's election finds voters extremely unhappy about the government shutdown. As a result Republicans trail in 5 of the 6 key races and are tied in the 6th.
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Move On Everybody, It Just Doesn't Matter — The ugliness of the GOP schism will probably have a long half life, as various parties feel the need to point fingers and shout “I didn't do it!” But if at all possible, I think conservatives and Republicans would be well-served by putting …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Limbaugh: GOP Most ‘Irrelevant’ Political Party I Can Remember — Rush Limbaugh, prominent conservative radio show host, slammed the Republican party on Wednesday for being “irrelevant,” lamenting that GOP leaders caved during their fight to defund Obamacare.
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Sorry, Kids. We Ate It All. — Eventually this shutdown crisis will end. And eventually the two parties will make another stab at a deal on taxes, investments and entitlements. But there's one outcome from such negotiations that I can absolutely guarantee: Seniors …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Stop Fretting: The Debt-Ceiling Crisis Is Over! — If you're reading the newspapers just now to get caught up on the debt-ceiling crisis, you may have the impression that events are now spinning utterly out of control. “A day that was supposed to bring Washington to the edge of resolving …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
GOP shutdown disaster could give Dems a big lift — With the news breaking that John Boehner will allow a House vote on a Senate deal to end the crisis, meaning Republicans surrendered with nothing to show for weeks of crisis brinkmanship, how does that impact GOP fortunes heading into 2014?
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