No deal. Talks between the white house and House Republicans have gone nowhere. Now, the Government Shutdown has moved from the house to the senate. Senators will meet in a matter of hours. Hopes are that a bipartisan effort will break the budget impasse before default. John terrick joins us now from capitol hill. All right. John reporter good morning. Good morning to you. Republicans ain the senate blocked a bill yesterday to increase the debt ceiling. So walk us through what could happen on the Senate Floor Today reporter the house isnt in today as they were last sunday or the sunday before the shutdown began. Only the senate. They are coming in at 1 00 oclock. We think its going to be behindcloseddoor meetings. Yesterday, the republicans in the house capitulated saying the president is not dealing with them anymore. He thinks he can get what he wants by dealing with republicans in the senate and he wish their colleagues would stand firm and not give up on their principles. So when i
That your name is honored. Point out to them the road they should follow, as you give them the wisdom and courage to do their duty. Help them not to be dominated by what they have been rather than by what they could become. May they never forget their accountability to you as servants and stewards of your purposes. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Reid mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid i move to proceed to calendar number 211, the debt limit legislation. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk motion to proceed to consideration of calendar number 211, a bill to ensure the complete and timely payment of the obligations of the United States government until december 31, 201
Does cause cancer. Definitive new research from the World Health Organization. A bosnianserb arrested on war crime charges. Hundred was thousands of u. S. Government employees are heading back to work for the first time in more than two weeks. It follows the vote from Congress Wednesday night that approved raising the debt ceiling and reopening the government. President barack obama signed the bill into law in the early hours, but its only a temporary reprieve. The deal only funds the government until next year. Despite the talk of bipartisanship, democraties and republicans remain divided over budget issues. We are monitoring the stock exchange. First, lets go live to kimberly covering the political tussle in washington d. C. Kimberly, i guess now this deal must be breathing some life at least back into the government buildings around you. Indeed, you can see it on the roads heading into washington, d. C. This morning, packed for the first time in 16 days as more than 800,000 federal
We begin with an address of bad news for the president its a setback for the Affordable Care act. As lisa stark reports, numbers are not good. Reporter they are not the numbers the Obama Administration hoped for. 106,000 americans have signed up for health plans under the Affordable Care act. 75 did so through the staterun websites only a quarter fewer than 21,000 used the federal exchange. House Speaker John Boehner called it a rolling calamity that must be scrapped. They faced tough questions from the republicans about the rollout. This was a monumental mistake to go live and explode on the launch pad. On the other side of the aisle democrats say republicans want nothing more than to dismantle the Affordable Care act known as obamacare. Nobody in this country believes that republicans want to fix the website. Caught in the crossfire two Key Technology officials, repeatedly questioned about why after years of work and hundreds of millions the website was not completely tested before i
They dont have religion but they do have a growing following. We begin with the reality check for president obama and the Affordable Care act. Its not exactly welcome news. The administration estimated half a Million People would have enrolled by the end of october. Only one 06,000 people signed up, about onefifth of what the white house had expected of those, nearly 80,000 signed up through staterun exchanges. Fewer than 27,000 enrolled through the federal website. Republicans say its the best evidence yet that obamacare is a failure. We begin our coverage with Mike Viqueira at the whitehouse. Mike . Reporter john, the white house, the Administration Spent weeks furiously trying to lower expectations, anticipating this released to and now, we know why. You read the figures only one 06,000 have enrolled thus far. Thats far short of the half a million that was expected was projected in a memo leaked by house republicans. But of that number, only exactly 26,784 have successfully enrolled