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1:00 PM ET, October 15, 2013

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Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
Ted Cruz, House Republicans Meet in Secret at Tortilla Coast  —  Updated Oct. 15, 11:58 a.m. |  Sen. Ted Cruz met with roughly 15 to 20 House Republicans for around two hours late Monday night at the Capitol Hill watering hole Tortilla Coast.  —  The group appeared to be talking strategy …
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Robert Costa / National Review:
House Conservatives Revolt  —  Later this morning, House Republicans will meet in the Capitol's basement.  The chief topic of conversation: the emerging Senate deal.  But before the meeting even begins, House conservatives are bashing it behind the scenes, and they're pushing the leadership to reject the compromise.
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
The New House Plan  —  changes the Senate plan in several ways that are designed to make it more palatable to Republicans.  The executive branch would not be able to shift funds to soften the blow of sequestration, as in the Senate bill; House appropriators want Congress to stay in charge of how the money gets spent.
New York Times:
House G.O.P. Backs Off Plan, Leaving Fiscal Talks in Limbo  —  WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders struggled late Tuesday morning to forge a new proposal to reopen the government and change the president's health care law, after a plan presented behind closed doors to the Republican rank …
Politico:
House Republicans to move own bill  —  House Republican leaders on Tuesday will try to move their own bill to open the government, lift the debt ceiling and enact a host of health-care related policies just days before the U.S. government reaches its borrowing limit.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems to House GOP: The answer is No
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
Patrick Brennan / National Review:
How the House GOP Plans to Sell Their Version Of the Senate Deal
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Wonkblog
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
With deadline looming, House GOP struggles to build support for new debt, funding plan
Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Fix and Fortune
Mike Allen / Politico:
2 DAYS TO DEBT DEADLINE; SHUTDOWN DAY 15 — SENATE NEAR DEAL to postpone both cliffs to next year — HOUSE UNDER PRESSURE: 'won't be pretty' — WILL REPUBLICANS BE LEFT with little but bad polls?  —  DATA DU JOUR - DISapproval for handling of budget crisis, in new ABC News/WashPost poll …
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CNN:
‘Tremendous progress’: Senate has a plan, but what will House do?
Discussion: KTLA 5
Felix Salmon:
The default has already begun  —  The big question in Washington this week is whether, in the words of the NYT, we're going to see “a legislative failure and an economic catastrophe that could ripple through financial markets, foreign capitals, corporate boardrooms, state budget offices and the bank accounts of everyday investors”.
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New York Times:
Senators Near Fiscal Deal, but the House Is Uncertain  —  WASHINGTON — Senate leaders neared the completion Monday night of a bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown while the rest of the world braced for the possibility of an American default that could set off a global financial disaster.
Rielle Hunter / The Huffington Post:
I, Rielle Hunter, Apologize  —  I behaved badly.  That may seem obvious to you but it's taken me a long time to admit that, even to myself.  For years I was so viciously attacked by the media and the world that I felt like a victim.  I now realize that the attacks are actually beside the point.
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Panetta rebukes Obama's handling of shutdown  —  Leon Panetta served in Washington with nine presidents, starting with Lyndon Johnson.  He has been a member of Congress, Office of Management and Budget director, White House chief of staff, director of the Central Intelligence Agency and secretary …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Leon Panetta Blames Both Sides For Fiscal Crisis
Discussion: Washington Wire and Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally  —  The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials …
Esquire:
13 THINGS THAT DEFINE THE NEW AMERICAN CENTER  —  It is bigger than you think...  An exclusive Esquire-NBC News survey shows us that everything we are told about politics in America today—that there is no middle ground between left and right, blue and red, us and them—is wrong.
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Tony Dokoupil / NBCNews:
The New American Center: Why our nation isn't as divided as we think
Don Kaplan / NY Daily News:
'The Kelly File's' surge is legit, Nielsen says  —  MSNBC had questioned Fox News show's 100% ratings increase  —  Megyn Kelly hosts the Fox News Channel's new show “The Kelly File.”  —  Nielsen has conducted an investigation into the ratings for Megyn Kelly's new Fox News Channel show …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
McAuliffe leads Cuccinelli by 7 points as Va. voters blame GOP for shutdown  —  Virginia voters looking for somebody to blame for the government shutdown impacting federal workers in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads have settled on gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli …
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The Atlantic Online:
What This Cruel War Was Over  —  It is not so much the behavior of the lone idiot that matters, but the tenor of the crowd around him.  —  On Sunday, a group of conservative radicals held a protest in Washington.  Eventually they walked to the White House.
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
A Fox Is Living on the White House Grounds and No One Can Catch It Because of the Shutdown  —  Really.  —  A fox.  Unfortunately, no pictures of the White House fox are available.  (jans canon/Flickr)  —  Illustrators of children's books, here is your next story:
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner: ‘No Decision About What Exactly We Will Do’  —  Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) insisted after his conference's Tuesday meeting that he hadn't decided on a way forward for re-opening the government and avoiding default, though details of a plan had already leaked from House leadership sources.
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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