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Lead us to this shutdown. It was a frightening day in the nations capitol, the sound of gunfire and a highspeed chase sent people scrambling for cover. Authorities locked down the capitol and white house for more than an hour. When it was over the drive the car they had been chasing had been shot and two officers injured. Libby joins us with more. This began near the white house when a woman in a black sedan tried to breach the barricades. Secret service stopped her. She ended up leading them on...

Washington, d. C. This morning, and he blamed House Speaker john boehner for the Government Shutdown. Obama the only thing that is preventing all that from happening right now, today, in the next five minutes is that Speaker John Boehner wont even let the bill get a yes or no vote because he doesnt want to anger the extremists in his party. Thats all. Thats what this whole thing is about. We have complete coverage of the Government Shutdown. Libby casey is on capitol hill. But we begin with Mike...

In seattle after the seahawks first ever super bowl title. The first ever European Commission reports on corruption exposed fraud, bribery and describing a breath taking scandal. It is in 160 billion and the cost to the european economy every year and roughly equal to the Gross Domestic Product of romania. We have more on that. The commissioner is saying no state is corruption free. Across the Member States 76 of the people saying that corruption is widespread and that number is higher in spain,...

Rejected the houses effort to appoint what they call a conferries to go to a house nate negotiation. The house sent their con ferries to that negotiation anyway and pointed out that there were no Senate Negotiators in the room with them. The house members said theyre extremely upset about that, very frustrated. Now at this hour, weve got House Republicans meeting in a room in the basement of this building in the house of representatives trying to figure out what the strategy is for the rest of t...

Work. They will not let the Tea Party Republicans stop the progress of our country. They are going to demand justice. They are going to demand that the shutdown ends and that the spirit of the American People be recognized. What we need to do, mr. President , is to get the Government Back to work for the American People of the senate has to send the house a bill that will end the shutdown. The house should schedule a vote for this bill immediately t. Will pass. Immediately. It will pass. We shou...

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Unanimous requests. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection, so ordered. n mr. Cruz so the first unanimous consent request i would promulgate, mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h. J. Res. 72, making continuing appropriations for Veterans Benefits for the fiscal year 2014, which was received from the house. I ask further consent that the measure be read three times and passed and that the motion to reconsider be ...

I am amazed that after this conference passed unanimously, the senate has unanimously, and the president signed instructions that our military and civilian contractors should be held harmless in this entire shutdown that after a week we are still waiting for them to implement the law that was put to place a week ago. They are allowing us to have more and more pain specifically in the military. All of us agreed together that they would be held harmless entirely. It is very frustrating that we eve...

Closure of National Parks, which did not stop some of them from berating park federal employees from enforcing the shut down. We have other members in this orwellian week, saying the shutdown is all about respect and we have got to get something out of this. We just do not know what it is. So finally, a moment of decency. Finally, we turn to the men and women who serve our country. 800,000 employees and we do something decent for them. We alleviate the angst of whether there will be a paycheck w...