Pelley senior White House Correspondent bill plante at the white house for us tonight. Thanks, bill. The shutdown, as you know, is the result of republican attempts to roll back obamacare, but House Republicans appeared to be having second thoughts today and they began passing bills to fund parts of the government, despite threats of a president ial veto. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Reporter House Republicans moved to Fund National parks and the National Institutes of health after the nation saw stories about Sick Children shut out of cancer trials and veterans blocked from the world war ii memorial. House majority leader eric cantor. It is a shame that folks in this country who come to washington to be able to see these memorials cant. Reporter as he spoke, a small group of furloughed workers demonstrated nearby urging lawmakers to reopen the entire government. Why are you pushing for monuments to be opened instead of, say, headstart preschools for lowincome children . Isnt that
Then, in his words, we are in trouble. Pelley senior White House Correspondent bill plante at the white house for us tonight. Thanks, bill. The shutdown, as you know, is the result of republican attempts to roll back obamacare, but House Republicans appeared to be having second thoughts today and they began passing bills to fund parts of the government, despite threats of a president ial veto. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Reporter House Republicans moved to Fund National parks and the National Institutes of health after the nation saw stories about Sick Children shut out of cancer trials and veterans blocked from the world war ii memorial. House majority leader eric cantor. It is a shame that folks in this country who come to washington to be able to see these memorials cant. Reporter as he spoke, a small group of furloughed workers demonstrated nearby urging lawmakers to reopen the entire government. Why are you pushing for monuments to be opened instead of, say, headstart prescho
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. No one was more lonely on this second day of the partial Government Shutdown than the president. President lincoln. His memorial, one of the Many National park sites, forced to close. 800,000 federal workers nationwide have been furloughed. Their lost salaries alone are estimated to cost the economy 300 million every day. Protester vicki maturo, at the Federal Building in los angeles summed it up for a lot of folks. The white house is open. This is a live picture. President obama called congressional leaders of both parties there this evening to try to break the impasse. That meeting has just end and the our senior White House Correspondent bill plante is there. Bill whrark do we know . Reporter scott, we know the meeting lasted a little over an hour and ended in an impasse. Speaker boehner has just said it was polite but the president stuck to his position of not negotiating over the shutd
Far and Away: Everything to Know About Tom Cruise s Only Western Movie tvovermind.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tvovermind.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.