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House Republican leadership will attempt to sell House Republicans on a new plan to avoid a government shutdown Wednesday, and it includes a partial defunding of Obamacare. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Doug McSchooler)

Beltway Confidential

Morning Examiner: House leadership’s latest plan to avoid shutdown

Conn Carroll -

September 18, 2013 12:00 am

Healthcare

Senate, House ensnared in health care controversy

David Espo -

September 17, 2013 4:59 pm

This photo provided by Cindy Martinson shows her daughter Mandy Martinson. Every weekend, Cindy Martinson treks from her home in Mason City, Iowa, about 160 miles roundtrip to Waseca, Minn. She visits the federal prison there, where her daughter Mandy Martinson, a first-time offender, is in the middle of 15-year prison sentence. Cindy Martinson knows her daughter made mistakes and broke the law. Mandy Martinson was at a low point in her life, her mother said, addicted to methamphetamine when she allowed a drug dealer she was dating to move in with her. Within weeks, police raided her house. (AP Photo/Cindy Martinson)

Crime

Congress looks to relax mandatory prison terms

Henry Jackson -

September 17, 2013 4:45 pm

News

FACT CHECK: Food stamp debate has empty calories

MARY CLARE JALONICK -

September 17, 2013 4:01 pm

News

Administration explaining Syria plan to lawmakers

Bradley Klapper -

September 17, 2013 2:59 pm

News

White House criticizes lawmakers opposing gun bill

Nedra Pickler -

September 17, 2013 2:10 pm

Adita Chicas, left, and her son Jessy Chicas, 10, of Woodbridge, Va., cheer as they arrive at the

Immigration

Obama open to piecemeal approach to immigration in House

Meghashyam Mali -

September 17, 2013 4:00 am

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard

Politics

Top House Republican authors Moscow Times rebuttal to Putin op-ed

Susan Ferrechio -

September 17, 2013 4:00 am

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) president Richard Trumka addresses members during the quadrennial AFL-CIO convention at Los Angeles Convention Center Monday, Sept 9, 2013.ÃÂ When Obamacare passed in March 2010, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka lauded it as a

Columnists

Union leaders backed Obamacare — and undermined their members’ insurance

Sean Higgins -

September 17, 2013 4:00 am

Even the commemoration of Constitution Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, exposes the hyperpartisan divide in Congress. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Constitution Day shows partisan divide

Joel Gehrke -

September 17, 2013 4:00 am

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Morning Examiner: House leadership’s latest plan to avoid shutdown

Senate, House ensnared in health care controversy

Congress looks to relax mandatory prison terms

FACT CHECK: Food stamp debate has empty calories

Administration explaining Syria plan to lawmakers

White House criticizes lawmakers opposing gun bill

Obama open to piecemeal approach to immigration in House

Top House Republican authors Moscow Times rebuttal to Putin op-ed

Union leaders backed Obamacare — and undermined their members’ insurance

Constitution Day shows partisan divide

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