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  • Democratic leader Harry Reid says Senate leaders have reached a bipartisan deal to avoid default and end the government shutdown, now in its 16th day.
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  • Congressional leaders working on deal to try and avoid default
  • Senate leaders took command of efforts to avert a Treasury default and end the partial government shutdown.
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  • The Senate's top two leaders both expressed optimism Monday that they were closing in on an agreement to prevent a national financial default and reopen the government after a two-week partial shutdown.
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  • Senate Republicans and Democrats hit an impasse Sunday over spending in their last-ditch struggle to avoid an economy-jarring default in just four days and end a partial government shutdown that enters its third week.
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  • Republicans and Democrats in Congress lumbered through a day of political maneuvering Saturday while a threatened default by the Treasury crept uncomfortably closer and a partial government shutdown neared the end of its second week.
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  • The latest impacts: New aircraft grounded, military chaplains silenced and a crab harvest jeopardized in the Bering Sea.
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  • Statue of Liberty among local casualties of shutdown
  • A government shutdown is having far-reaching consequences for some, but minimal impact on others.
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  • The House has passed a bill to give 800,000 furloughed federal workers retroactive pay once the government reopens.
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  • Prospects for a swift end to the 4-day-old partial government shutdown all but vanished Friday.
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  • The Defense Department says it has temporarily suspended all sports competitions at the service academies as a result of the partial government shutdown.
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  • Here are some of the possible effects of the government shutdown.
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  • Locked in a deepening struggle with President Barack Obama, House Republicans on Saturday demanded a one-year delay in major parts of the nation's new health care law and permanent repeal of a tax on medical devices as the price for preventing a partial government shutdown threatened for early Tuesday.
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  • The Senate dealt an emphatic defeat to a core of rebellious young conservatives Friday and approved legislation preventing government agencies from closing on Tuesday.
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  • Devin Dwyer reports on the hurdles the immigration reform bill faces in the House
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  • guntrol debate heats up in washington
  • Devin Dwyer reports on the push for gun control in Washington, DC
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  • Preeti Arla reports on a deal to rewrite the nation's immigration laws
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  • Karen Travers reports on Hillary Clinton's testimony on the Libya consulate attack
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  • Lisa Colagrossi reports on the secretary of state's long-awaited appearance before Congress
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  • Anthony Johnson reports
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  • Emily Schmidt reports
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  • Area Senators have introduced a bill that would reverse transit service cuts and layoffs.
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  • Sander Levin
  • Rep. Sander Levin was chosen Thursday as acting chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.
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  • Rep. Charles Rangel temporarily stepped aside as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Wednesday.
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