CRUZ: SENATE WON’T MAKE SAME MISTAKE IN NEXT FIGHT
By WILL WEISSERT FILE – In this Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013 file photo, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013,…
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HEALTH CARE LAW TURNS TO SOCIAL MEDIA IN ILLINOIS
By CARLA K. JOHNSON In this Oct. 15, 2013 photo, social media experts at the marketing agency FleishmanHillard work in a Chicago command center on the Get Covered Illinois marketing…
ANALYSIS: OBAMA’S BUDGET WIN HAS STRINGS ATTACHED
By JULIE PACE President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. Lawmakers Wednesday voted to avoid a financial…
FOOL’S ERRAND OR HEROIC STAND? GOP ON CRUZ, LEE
By DONNA CASSATA Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to reporters waiting outside a closed-door meeting of Senate Republicans as news emerged that leaders reached a last-minute agreement to avert a…
HO– USE GOP LEADERS SEEK SHORT-TERM DEBT EXTENSION
By ANDREW TAYLOR Senate Finance Committee chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., center, listens as Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew,back to camera, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013,…
HO– USE HARD-LINERS STAND UNITED IN BUDGET SHOWDOWN
By DONNA CASSATA FILE – In this Oct. 29, 2012 file photo, then-Republican House candidate, now, Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., speaks in Claremore, Okla. Hard-line House conservatives are demanding concessions…
REP. DUFFY OF WISCONSIN ASSAULTED OUTSIDE CAPITOL
FILE – In this Dec. 12, 2012 file photo, Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis. right, accompanied by Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.N.C., center, and others, gestures as he speaks during a news…
COUNTDOWN: GOP UNITY FRAYS AS SHUTDOWN GROWS NEAR
By DAVID ESPO Speaker of the House John Boehner, R- Ohio, pauses during a news conference after a House Republican Conference meeting about the ongoing budget fight on Capitol Hill…