When D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray approached Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and asked him to support full funding for the District of Columbia during the government shutdown Reid replied, “I’m on your side. Don’t screw it up.”
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on Fox News: “I think John Boehner made exactly the right call. He’s been making a lot of very good calls recently, and one of the calls is that he refused to have 200 Republicans go
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on CNN’s Crossfire with host Van Jones: “Do you feel like you owe your party an apology? Listen, you have people who believed in you, they believed that you were somehow going to be able to
Sen. Ted Cruz pushes back against Van Jones and shares his view on how health care reform ought to work and then Jones asked Ted Cruz if it was wrong to go against Republican leaders and continue his push against
AP: House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi said that one person has the key to end the partial government shutdown, and that’s House Speaker John Boehner. Pelosi urged Boehner to allow a vote on a clean continuing resolution to re-open
U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA) said it would be a great idea to make the members of Congress who have to live in their offices suffer more and lock the doors to the House gym where they shower.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Obama was “happy” that cooler heads prevailed and a short term solution to the shutdown crisis was put forward by the GOP today…
Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid discusses the Democrats willingness to negotiate with the Republicans.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson with MSNBC host Ed Schultz on Wednesday night Schultz “What is the moral component of what’s unfolding in Washington?”. Jackson “The confederates are rejoicing, They’re winning.” Schultz “You told me on the radio you think this is
Top Republican House leaders held a short conference on Thursday demanding the President come to the negotiating table. Republican leadership proposed a temporary raise to the debt ceiling as well as a mandatory conference in the hopes the President will
Speaker of the House John Boehner announced a short-term fix to the debt limit on Thursday in order to entice President Obama to come to the negotiating table. Boehner reminded the administration that “no one gets everything they want” and
The owner of a wheelchair-bound cat can’t believe she got a ticket for not having the animal on a leash.
The federal government shutdown means schools cannot receive reimbursement for lunches provided for free or at reduced rates to students in need–though school officials committed that no children would go hungry.
At the Daniel Boone National Forest, campers and boaters are being turned away thanks to closures of nationally-owned facilities.
The Freedom from Religion Foundation, American Atheists, and Center for Progress in Alabama object to “Operation Good Shepherd,” a Montgomery Police Department program to partner with local churches to prevent crime.
A California man has created a new shovel design to prevent the strain and aches commonly associated with the classic tool.
