Rather than rolling over in the face of a (still emerging) bipartisan Senate deal, House Republicans are going to offer their own bill today. More soon on the particulars.
Late update: Here’s the early word on what the House GOP bill (perhaps best seen as a counteroffer to the Senate) will include.
That’s what we’re discussing now at The Hive (sub.req.).
The GOP put out a tweet this afternoon telling people to vote in the New Jersey special Senate election on the wrong day.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said this afternoon he shares Majority Leader Harry Reid’s optimism that a deal can be reached.
Harry Reid says he hopes to have a deal to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling before this afternoon’s meeting at the White House.
The man who wants to turn a tiny North Dakota town into an Aryan paradise has found some reinforcements. A white supremacist skinhead, his wife, and their five children have apparently moved to the town.
The troublesome tech startup Waywire, which was co-founded by Democratic Senate candidate Cory Booker, is being sold off. He recently left the company amid questions about his role there.
In case you missed the day’s events, while high level negotiations sputtered on, a Tea Party rally including Sen. Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin succeeded in capturing some of the essence of the political world the rejectionist rump of the GOP is now inhabiting in scenes reminiscent of 2009’s Summer of Teh Crazy.