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Henry Cisneros, a former Housing and Urban Development secretary, says expanding the nondeportation policy to all illegal immigrants would generate such anger that it probably jeopardizes the ability to go forward in good faith on immigration reform in Congress."
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Rep. Paul Ryan wrote an op-ed proposing to couple an increase in the government's debt ceiling with "common-sense reforms of the country's entitlement programs and tax code," but grass-roots activists said he failed to mention Obamacare. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, came up with a solution that would allow the president to request a debt limit increase. To reject it, Congress would have to pass legislation that the president could veto, meaning it would take a two-thirds vote in each house of Congress to stop an increase. (Associated Press)
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A child looks longingly through the locked gates of the National Zoo in this shutdown photograph posted on the social media site, Reddit.
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"Many health insurance plans throughout the nation will subsidize abortion on demand," Rep. Christopher H. Smith says about Obamacare. (Associated Press)
