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  • The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to avoid national default and end the 16-day partial government shutdown.
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  • Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is surrounded by reporters after leaving the office of Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ken., on Capitol Hill on Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 in Washington.
  • House Republican efforts to pass legislation averting a Treasury default and ending a government shutdown collapsed Tuesday.
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  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada takes the elevator after a rare Senate session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013.
  • The Senate's top leaders expressed optimism that they were close to an agreement to prevent a national financial default.
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  • Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., look to photographers as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House.
  • The Senate hit an impasse Sunday over spending in their last-ditch struggle to avoid an economy-jarring default.
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  • Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at a rally in front of the WWII Memorial Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013 in Washington.
  • A crowd converged on the World War II Memorial to protest the memorial's closing under the government shutdown.
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  • Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, pauses during a news conference with, from left, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Reid, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Was., and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013 in Washington.
  • Congress lumbered through a day of political maneuvering Saturday while a threatened default by the Treasury crept closer.
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  • Tourists flock to Grand Canyon Airport to take helicopter tours as the only way they could see the Grand Canyon as the entrance to park remains closed to visitors due to the continued federal government shutdown on Friday Oct. 11, 2013, in Tusayan, Ariz.
  • Arizona officials say tourists should be able to return to Grand Canyon National Park Saturday following a government plan.
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  • The White House is shown in this undated file photo.
  • With time running short, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans accelerated efforts to end the shutdown.
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  • House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio departs the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, en route to the White House to meet with President Barack Obama about a solution to ending the government shutdown.
  • House Republicans softened their long-standing demands and the White House appeared agreeable to a compromise.
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  • President Barack Obama talks about the the budget and the partial government shutdown, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, in the Brady Press Room of the White House in Washington.
  • President Barack Obama is making plans to talk with Republican lawmakers at the White House in the coming days.
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  • President Barack Obama speaks about the budget and the partial government shutdown, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, at the White House in Washington.
  • President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner offered hints of compromise but also traded heated rhetoric.
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  • Storm clouds hang over Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013.
  • A possible national default loomed closer on Monday as the partial government shutdown lingered, rattling markets.
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  • House Speaker John Boehner is seen in an undated file photo.
  • As the U.S. heads into the sixth day of the government shutdown, there are still no signs of a solution to the impasse.
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  • Storm clouds hang over Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013.
  • The House passed a bill on Saturday to pay federal workers who are furloughed during the government shutdown.
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  • Storm clouds hang over Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013.
  • The House passed a bill on Saturday to pay federal workers who are furloughed during the government shutdown.
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  • The Pentagon is ordering most of its approximately 400,000 furloughed civilian employees back to work.
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  • Storm clouds hang over Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013.
  • Prospects for a swift end to the partial government shutdown all but vanished Friday as lawmakers squabbled into the weekend.
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  • President Barack Obama speaks about the government shutdown and debt ceiling during a visit to M. Luis Construction, which specializes in asphalt manufacturing, concrete paving, and roadway reconstruction, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, in Rockville, Md.
  • President Barack Obama said Thursday he's canceling a trip to Asia next week because of the government shutdown.
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  • An aerial view of Camp Pendleton is seen in this undated file photo.
  • The federal government shutdown has closed all non-essential operations at Camp Pendleton, affecting 1,200 employees.
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  • Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left, speak to reporters at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013.
  • The government limped into a third day of partial shutdown after a White House meeting yielded no signs of progress.
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  • House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks to members of the media after meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013.
  • House Speaker Boehner has emerged from a meeting with President Obama to say the president is still refusing to negotiate.
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  • House Speaker John Boehner is seen in this Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, photo.
  • After two days, there are no signs of progress over the partial government shutdown.
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  • A sign shows the Statue of Liberty is closed due to the government shutdown.
  • There are suggestions from leaders in both parties that the partial government shutdown could last for weeks.
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  • The White House is seen in this undated file photo.
  • Congress has missed the deadline for averting the first partial government shutdown in nearly two decades.
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  • Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks on the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 24, 2013.
  • Sen. Ted Cruz ended his filibuster to dismantle Obamacare as the Senate moved to a test vote to avert a government shutdown.
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  • Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks on the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 24, 2013.
  • The Senate is on its way to defeating attempts to dismantle the president's health care law despite filibusters.
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  • Republican John Boehner raises a gavel after being voted to a second term as Speaker of the House on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013.
  • The House voted to cripple the president's health care law as part of a ploy that threatens a partial government shutdown.
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  • Republican John Boehner raises a gavel after being voted to a second term as Speaker of the House on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013.
  • The GOP is moving to send to the Senate a measure to prevent a government shutdown but cripple the health care law.
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  • Scott Hounsell, former director of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, takes part in a political focus group in 2012 at ABC7.
  • Police arrested a former director of the Republican Party of L.A. County for sending sexually explicit messages to a teen.
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  • The man who led the IRS when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party groups says he knew little about the targeting.
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  • University of Southern California professor of political science, Darry Sragow, was taped delivering an anti-Republican rant during class by a student.
  • A USC professor is sparking outrage after he was taped delivering an anti-Republican rant during class by a student.
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  • University of Southern California professor of political science, Darry Sragow, was taped delivering an anti-Republican rant during class by a student.
  • A USC professor is sparking outrage after he was taped delivering an anti-Republican rant during class by a student.
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  • Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her support for gay marriage in an online video released by the Human Rights Campaign on Monday, March 18, 2013.
  • Hillary Clinton has announced her support for gay marriage in an online video released by the Human Rights Campaign.
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  • GOP Sen. Rand Paul eked out a narrow victory in the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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  • Mitt Romney delivered his first public speech since losing the presidential election at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on March 15, 2013.
  • Mitt Romney delivered his first public speech since losing the presidential election at the 2013 CPAC in Maryland.
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  • CIA director John Brennan is seen in this undated file photo.
  • Despite Sen. Rand Paul's nearly 13-hour filibuster, John Brennan was confirmed as CIA director by the Senate Thursday.
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  • The United States Capitol on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012.
  • The House passed a bill to suspend the debt ceiling and allow the Treasury Department to borrow new money until mid-May.
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  • The United States Capitol on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012.
  • Senate leaders sought a last-minute compromise Saturday to avoid a 'fiscal cliff' at the dawn of the new year.
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  • Democratic Party leader Harry Reid (left) and Republican Party leader Mitch McConnell (right) of the Senate are seen.
  • The leaders of both parties in the Senate are meeting over the next 24 hours on a last minute compromise bill.
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  • President Obama and congressional leaders will make a last attempt to end the stalemate regarding the fiscal cliff.
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  • President Obama and congressional leaders made a last attempt to end the stalemate regarding the fiscal cliff.
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  • President Obama invited congressional leaders to the White House to discuss a compromise on the 'fiscal cliff.'
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  • The holiday break in Hawaii is ending early for President Barack Obama because of the looming fiscal cliff.
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  • Lawmakers are growing more skeptical about a deal, while the country lurches toward the so-called 'fiscal cliff.'
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  • President Barack Obama urged congressional leaders to approve legislation to avoid the so called "fiscal cliff."
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  • The House went forward with a bill to up taxes on $1M-plus earners as hopes faded for a deal to avert the 'fiscal cliff.'
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  • With the so-called fiscal cliff quickly approaching, Obama and Boehner traded barbed political charges on Wednesday.
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  • U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has dropped out of the running to become the next U.S. secretary of state.
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  • The White House and Republicans are bargaining in secret while sparring in public over a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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  • President Obama held a campaign-style event in Michigan to shore up support for his plan to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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