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1:10 PM ET, October 25, 2013

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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
10 Senate Democrats Now Calling For Extension Of Obamacare Enrollment Period  —  Ten Senate Democrats have signed a letter urging the Obama administration to extend Obamacare's open enrollment period beyond March 31.  —  The letter, which follows a similar letter that Sen. Jeanne Shaheen …
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Jeanne Shaheen:
SHAHEEN LEADS COALITION OF SENATORS TO CALL FOR OPEN ENROLLMENT EXTENSION … (Washington, DC) - As Americans continue to experience technical difficulties with federal and state health insurance enrollment, a coalition of U.S. Senators led by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) …
Discussion: Politico and Weasel Zippers
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
This Isn't the First Time Obama Ignored Health Care Warnings  —  The president needs to apply an overdue reality check to the problem-plagued Affordable Care Act.  —  A woman looks at the HealthCare.gov insurance exchange internet site October 1, 2013.  (Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images))
Discussion: The Dish and First Read
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Strassel: Democrats Run for ObamaCare Cover  —  After weeks of vowing they wouldn't cave on the president's signature legislation, some Democrats are doing just that.  —  Jeanne Shaheen doesn't sound like a Democrat who just won a government-shutdown “victory.”
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
DNC chief: Democrats can run and win on ObamaCare in 2014
Discussion: BizPac Review and Weasel Zippers
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Follow the Law  —  Vladimir Lenin is said to have observed …
Brian Beutler / Salon:
Republicans' embarrassing Obamacare overreach backfires
Discussion: Daily Kos
Politico:
House GOP plans no immigration vote in 2013  —  House Republican leadership has no plans to vote on any immigration reform legislation before the end the year.  —  The House has just 19 days in session before the end of 2013, and there are a number of reasons why immigration reform is stalled this year.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP comfortable ignoring Obama pleas for vote on immigration bill  —  For President Obama and advocates hoping for a House vote on immigration reform this year, the reality is simple: Fat chance.  —  Obama repeatedly since the shutdown has sought to turn the nation's focus to immigration reform …
Discussion: Liberaland and americanthinker.com
Megan Slack / White House.gov Blog:
President Obama: We Should Pass Immigration Reform, and We Should Do It this Year
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Officials alert foreign services that Snowden has documents on their cooperation with U.S.  —  U.S. officials are alerting some foreign intelligence services that documents detailing their secret cooperation with the United States have been obtained by former National Security Agency contractor …
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James Kanter / New York Times:
Germany and France Propose Talks With U.S. to Rein In Spying
Discussion: The Hill, The Week, Gawker and The Plum Line
Guardian:
Germany and France demand talks with US over NSA spying revelations
Carter Evans / CBS News:
Arrival of Obamacare forcing insurers to drop customers with low coverage  —  The Affordable Care Act was signed by President Obama in 2010 and since then he has repeated one reassuring phrase: “If you like your insurance plan you will keep it.  No one will be able to take that away from you.
ThinkProgress:
CNN Anchor Challenges Congresswoman To Substantiate Obamacare Criticism, Hilarity Ensues  —  On Friday morning, CNN anchor Carol Costello challenged Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to substantiate her claim that HealthCare.gov will endanger Americans' medical privacy.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, The Raw Story and Mediaite
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Fiasco Isn't a Single-Payer Conspiracy  —  I'm spending my morning listening to various contractors testify before Congress.  Back in the day, when I worked for a tech consultancy, the technical term for what is going on in this hearing was “Not it!”
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO finds much less savings from raising Medicare age  —  The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Thursday dramatically lowered its estimate of the amount of budget savings to be gained from raising the Medicare eligibility age.  —  The CBO now says that raising the Medicare age slowly …
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CBO's Publications:
Raising the Age of Eligibility for Medicare to 67: An Updated Estimate of the Budgetary Effects
Discussion: American Prospect
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Sen. Paul threatens to hold Yellen nomination: Source  —  Sen. Paul threatens Yellen nomination  —  CNBC's Steve Liesman reports Sen. Rand Paul has threatened to put Janet Yellen's Fed nomination on hold in exchange for an audit of the Federal Reserve.  —  Sen. Rand Paul is threatening …
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Ben Terris / NationalJournal.com:
How Kirsten Gillibrand Shed Her Past on the Way to Liberal Stardom  —  New York's junior senator was once a rural populist.  Now people call her the next Hillary Clinton.  How she got from there to here.  —  SYRACUSE, N.Y.—It's closer to breakfast than lunch, but Kirsten Gillibrand …
Jeff Himmelman / New York Times:
A Game of Shark and Minnow  —  In a remote corner of the South China Sea, 105 nautical miles from the Philippines, lies a submerged reef the Filipinos call Ayungin.  —  SCROLL  —  Satellite imagery: NASA  —  In most ways it resembles the hundreds of other reefs, islands …
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Elderly patients sick over losing doctors under ObamaCare  —  ObamaCare is making seniors sick.  —  Elderly New Yorkers are in a panic after getting notices that insurance companies are booting their doctors from the Medicare Advantage program as a result of the shifting medical landscape under ObamaCare.
Faith Karimi / CNN:
JonBenet Ramsey details coming  —  (CNN) — The little beauty queen pranced across the stage and into America's heart 17 years ago.  In heavy makeup, almost like a real-life doll, her images captivated the nation with every strut, every twirl, every wave.  —  But even with the fame …
Discussion: KTLA 5 and Scared Monkeys
The Baylor Lariat:
StuGov: Nix ‘homosexual’ from conduct code  —  Student Senate passed the Sexual Misconduct Code Non-Discrimination Act, a proposal to reword Baylor's Sexual Misconduct Code, in the Student Senate meeting Thursday.  —  The act proposed to remove the phrase “homosexual acts” …
Rebecca Shabad / Ballot Box:
Crist launches video and website for expected gubernatorial run  —  Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist on Friday launched a new ad and website that could preface a guvernatorial run.  —  Crist has shifted his allegiance to the Democratic Party and is expected by many to try to win back the governor's house …
Discussion: Politico and Post on Politics
Des Moines Register:
Ted Cruz Q&A: The senator's private side  —  Q. What is your dream job?  —  A.  “I'd love to be the starting point guard for the Houston Rockets, and I'm confident that there is no universe in which that will ever come to pass.”  —  Q. What kind of car do you drive?  —  A.  “A 2011 Range Rover.”
Discussion: CNN, Yahoo! News and The Hill
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Sen. Bullhead from Illinois is hooked on outrage  —  Dick Durbin not only baited his own hook, he swallowed it whole  —  A Facebook post by Sen. Dick Durbin asserting that a House Republican leader insulted President Barack Obama while negotiating with him has Durbin in hot water.
 
 
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Zoe Schlanger / Talking Points Memo:
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
The return of Sarah Palin
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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New York Times:
Getting to the bottom of HealthCare.gov's flop
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Discussion: The Verge and Gizmodo
BuzzFeed:
Croatian Parliament Puts Same-Sex Marriage Ban To Popular Vote
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
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