SHUTDOWN IMPACT: DEFENSE WORKERS RETURN TO WORK
Protestors hold signs during a during an event with the Democratic Progressive Caucus and furloughed federal employees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, as the budget battle…
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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…
PELOSI: REPUBLICANS CAN’T EVEN TALK TO THEMSELVES
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures during a news conference about the ongoing budget fight, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The government limped into…
OUTSIDE US, RIPPLE EFFECTS OF BUDGET BATTLE FEARED
French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici addresses the media after a meeting with European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday Sept.…
AMERICANS ANXIOUS, IRRITATED AS GOV’T SHUTS DOWN
By DEEPTI HAJELA A sign explaining the closing of the Library of Congress is posted outside the Library of Congress in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Congress plunged the nation…
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…
SPIN METER: VIOLENT RHETORIC SEEN IN BUDGET FIGHTS
By JOSH LEDERMAN Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas leave the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. Ask top Democrats, and they’ll say Republicans are acting like arsonists, anarchists, and people…
SHUTDOWN THREAT PUTS HEAT ON HO– USE GOP
By ANDREW TAYLOR Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., right, arrive for the Senate to vote on a bill to fund the government, but stripped of…