Tag: government shutdown

The gathering, trumpeting, head butting in Rocky Mountain National Park will go on without spectators this year. The same kind of show in Washington is drawing lots of attention.

We're sticking with shutdown news as the House GOP sticks with the shutdown -- unless we blink, because we don't want to watch it. Because who can watch it? But we have to watch it. Because we can't look away!

Political brinkmanship around the Affordable Care Act is bad for business, creating a domino effect of lost confidence that is already cutting into the most profitable quarter of the year, according to the Small Business Majority.

Latest Washington game: Get your bets down now on when the madness of the government shutdown ends. It could be a while.

Obama's show of backbone changes the stakes in the government shutdown game. If Republicans don't get the new rules, we could be in for a long siege.

Here comes the shutdown. How did John Boehner get himself (and us) into this mess?

Friday morning, House Republicans voted again nearly unanimously to defund Obamacare, this time as part of a short-term spending bill necessary to keep government offices open and government services running.

This is a difficult period for many Democrats. They don't know quite what to do.

As the federal government prepares for a disastrous shutdown pinned largely to a House Republican amendment that would defund Planned Parenthood, Colorado Republican Senators attempted to mimic the legislative strategy that has led to the Capitol Hill standoff. Weeks of tense negotiations in Denver produced a budget plan tentatively embraced on both sides of the aisle. Then on Friday in stepped social conservatives in the Senate who during floor debate inserted a hot-button "defund Planned Parenthood" amendment into the budget negotiation.

As the federal government nears a shutdown, scheduled to begin in just over 10 hours, latest reports on negotiations between the House and Senate, led by Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), respectively, posit that the two sides are close on a dollar amount to cut from the 2011 budget — about $5 billion, according to the Washington Post.