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Path to government shutdown paved with partisan intentions
Healthcare

Path to government shutdown paved with partisan intentions

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Top officials of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service lavished taxpayer funds on themselves, made the phantom company of a recently retired employee one of their largest vendors and spent tens of thousands of dollars on storage spaces near their homes, where they kept old beds and toys.
Beltway Confidential

Morning Examiner: Meanwhile, in other news, federal bureaucrats still gone wild

Mark Tapscott -
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FMCS employees who tried to negotiate with contractors for better rates found themselves berated by top FMCS officials, such as when one who objected to paying $42 per dozen cookies for a Florida soiree of FMCS employees.

Part Four: Federal officials cede power to contractors who write themselves sweetheart deals

Luke Rosiak -
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A Texas World War II veteran attempting to visit the graves of his fellow soldiers who participated in the D-Day invasion found the gates locked for the government shutdown, according to Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas. (AP/Mel Evans)
Beltway Confidential

Feds lock Normandy cemetery despite having $85 million on hand for monuments

Joel Gehrke -
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The agency that issues the jobs report, the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, announced earlier in the week on its website that it would not be collecting data or issuing reports during the government shutdown. (Photo: Thinkstock)
Economy

Monthly jobs report becomes a casualty of the government shutdown

Joseph Lawler -
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The government shutdown means military chaplains won't get paid, according to John Schlageter, the general counsel of the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, U.S.A. (Photo: Thinkstock)
Beltway Confidential

Will the government arrest priests who celebrate Mass on military bases during the shutdown?

Timothy P. Carney -
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Chad Henderson, a 21-year-old student from Georgia, claimed yesterday that he and his father had signed up for Obamacare, but his father, Bill Henderson, disputed his story today. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Beltway Confidential

UPDATED: Whoops! Obamacare enrollee didn’t enroll, his dad says

Ashe Schow -
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Speaker John Boehner has said he lacks the votes for a clean CR and is demanding that the president negotiate with Republicans over further spending cuts and changes to Obamacare. (AP Photo)
Economy

Day 4: House GOP stands firm, demands Dems negotiate end of government shutdown

David M. Drucker -
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The sun peeks from behind the Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday. (AP/Susan Walsh)
Beltway Confidential

White House asking for sad shutdown stories

Ashe Schow -
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Failure to come to an agreement on a continuing resolution has led to the current government shutdown, even as another epic battle looms over another increase in debt ceiling.
Columnists

Congress and the president must get serious about debt crisis

Veronique de Rugy -
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