,epublicans www. Cspan. Org 202 7370002 republicans , independents 202 6280205. The hill newspaper this morning reports that shutdown are no shutdown lawmakers will get paid. The constitution requires all members of congress be paid. It is merely a question of timing. Shutdown pay for house members can be withheld temporarily. And in political this morning, president obama canceled his asian trip to fight the Government Shutdown. He was scheduled to leave washington this weekend to go to ali and brunei. Kerryary of state john will take the president s place. Back to the hill newspaper. This is an article, a long article that was in political this morning. Bad blood for feuding leaders. Senate majority leader harry fellowivately told Democratic Senators this week what he really thought of Speaker John Boehner. A little bit from the politico article this morning. As we announced prior to coming up on the washington journal,. Joining us for a few minutes is robert costa, the washington ed
Ones of the food and Drug Administration while negotiations continue. Washington, aurnal talked with border reporter to find out what was going on. Lets begin with what we heard. What do you have to say . I do not expect a clean one to be brought to the house floor. Will with the there are. Senate republicans are not going to provide the votes that would be necessary to get it through the senate. Given all the speculation over the last week that this was something he would do, it is possible he felt that he needed to make it clear that he will do something on the debt and the deficit. Lets show our viewers what he had to say when he was on abc this week. I told the president that there is no way that theyre going to pass. The president is risking default by not having a conversation with us. We are not going down that path. Time to deal with americas problems. How can you do nothing about the underlying problem . This year the federal government had more revenue than any year in the hi
In d. C. , a scare where a woman tried to run down a white house barricade, shot and killed on the streets near the senate. It began with reports of shots fired near the Heart Senate Building on constitution avenue. Legislatures and their staff were told that take shelter. A woman, miriam carey tried to ram her car through a barricade and took off at speed that is approached 80 miles per hour. Her car came to a stop. Police surrounded her. Then she backed up, took off and hit an officer. She was later killed in a hail of gunfire. She was unarmed despite earlier reports she might have had a gun. Police found an 18monthold girl found to be her daughter. The girl was unharmed. Here is what we know. She was a dental hygienist living in connecticut, but recently let go by her former employer, a dentist who says she suffered a fall in january, 2012. When she came back, she was pregnant and was never the same. She was fired last august after complaints from patients she was being too rough. P
Darn it, i have faith in politics. I believe democracy works. I believe good people can come to agreement and stop taking cheap, stupid shots at each other. Okay, didnt work once. It took us to civil war. But that was about a real disagreement. Slavery. It was regional, it was economic, it was historical. It was, after all we came to know, moral. This is a over a law the congress passed, that the president of the United States signed, the Supreme Court of the United States declared constitutional. Its isnt a sign of weakness for boehner to say when he gets up in the morning were going back to the original system . Sorry crazies, were going to go back to the law and move on. Jonathan martin, youre chuckling, but its so sad. Its so sad because all he has to do is say regular order, ladies and gentlemen, were going to do what weve always done. Enforce a law we wrote and the president signed. And he would probably invite a challenge to his speakership if he was to do that. I think the more
There . I have faith in this country, darn it, i have faith in politics. I believe good people can come to agreement and stop taking cheap stupid shots at each oesh. It didnt work once. It took us to civil war. But that was due to slavery. It was economic, historical. We came all to know moral. This fight is whether to implement a law that the United States congress passed, that the president of the United States signed, that the Supreme Court of the United States declared constitutional. Is it a sign of weakness for Speaker Boehner to say when he gets up in the morning, were going back to the regular american system. Sorry crazies, were going to enforce the law and move on. Jonathan martin writes for the New York Times, jonathan kay port on the washington post. Jonathan march thin, youre chuckling. Its sad. All he has to say regular order, ladies and gentlemen, were going to enforce a law that we wrote and the president signed. And he would invite a challenge to his speakership if he