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President Barack Obama has signed a measure into law reopening the federal government and averting a potential default.
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A woman described by lawmakers and aides as a long-time House stenographer has been removed from the chamber during a vote after she began shouting.
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The 285-144 roll call Wednesday night by which the House passed and sent to President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a threatened federal default and end the 16-day partial government shutdown.
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Time growing desperately short, House Republican efforts to pass legislation collapsed Tuesday night.
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Racing the clock, the Senate's Democratic and Republican leaders closed in on a deal Monday night to avoid an economy-menacing Treasury default and end the two-week partial government shutdown.
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Dozens staged a protest run in Valley Forge National Historical Park after a runner was ticketed amid the government shutdown.
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Lady Liberty was once again welcoming visitors to her shores Sunday.
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House Republicans are offering to pass legislation to avert a default and end the 11-day partial government shutdown.
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On a day filled with both rising and falling hopes, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans struggled inconclusively Thursday to find common ground that could avert an economy-tanking default and possibly end the 10-day-old partial government shutdown that has idled 350,000 federal workers.
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House Republican leaders are considering a short-term increase in the U.S. debt limit as a possible way to break the gridlock that threatens the nation with an unprecedented default in as little as a week, officials said Wednesday night.
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The Obama administration, scrambling to tamp down a controversy over suspended death benefits for the families of fallen troops, announced Wednesday that a charity would pick up the costs of the payments during the government shutdown.
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After weeks of gridlock, House Republicans floated broad hints Tuesday they might be willing to pass short-term legislation re-opening the government and averting a default in exchange for immediate talks with the Obama administration on reducing deficits and changing the three-year-old health care law.
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A large chunk of the furloughed federal work force is headed back to the Pentagon, and those who remain at home or are working without paychecks are a step closer to getting back pay once the partial government shutdown ends.
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The government shutdown has shut out couples planning to get married on the National Mall in Washington.
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Three days into a government shutdown, President Barack Obama pointedly blamed House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday.
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President Barack Obama brought congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday.
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The roiling debate over the U.S. government shutdown is extending to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram as fed-up Americans turn to social media.
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Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton plans to sign budget bills on Wednesday that would end a nearly three-week state government shutdown and put thousands of public employees back to work.
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Minnesota stumbled into its second government shutdown in six years on Thursday, with a partisan divide over taxes and spending to close a $5 billion deficit becoming only more bitter as a midnight deadline came and went without agreement.
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Perilously close to a shutdown, President Obama and congressional leaders forged an agreement late Friday.
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Federal workers were asked about the prospects of an 11th hour deal, and how that would change the mood in this area.
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President Barack Obama says a last-minute deal with congressional leaders to avert a government shutdown happened because "Americans of different beliefs came together."
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The Philadelphia region will see some immediate changes if the White House and Congress fail to reach an agreement on a new budget by midnight and the federal government shuts down.
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Republican leaders have called the party's House rank and file to a highly unusual late night meeting in the Capitol to discuss budget negotiations with President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats.
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The Pentagon says a government shutdown would delay the $100,000 death benefit paid to families if a military service member dies in the line of duty during the shutdown.
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