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Scenario in which this could truly be the president's decision about whether the government shuts down. >> we have already seen a big battle over the sequester. some will want to lock in spending at the lower level. you can imagine the house passing a cr that goes to the end of the year at the lower level and the senate decideing that is a good idea. we have members up for election and we don't want to be seen as the big spenders so let's pass it. now, the president of the united states who has fought the sequester tooth and nail says i will shut the government over the sequester and that is a...

The latest battle over the sequester. bob woodward over the white house. it began with an woodward op ed saying the president had moved the goal posts in the sequester battle. woodward then revealed that a bhous official, later identified as economic advisor gene sperling said he would regret wrying the article. in an e-mail dated last friday sperling writes i apologized for raising my voice in our conversation today. my bad. i do understand your problems with the couple of our statements in the fall, but feel, on the other hand, that you focus on a few specific trees that give a very wrong pe...