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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH, Thursday, December 15, 2011 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)59. HERE WE GO AGAIN! SHUTDOWN!
Payroll tax cut and spending bill stall in Senate, raising threat of shutdown
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/payroll-tax-cut-and-spending-bill-stall-in-senate-raising-threat-of-shutdown/2011/12/14/gIQAFdhuuO_story.html?hpid=z1
...Cabinet secretaries for the first time formally alerted affected federal workers Wednesday to the possibility of a shutdown indicating in an e-mail that they would determine later which staffers are essential to maintain operations in the event of a funding disruption....
Congress Takes Up a Partisan Battle, Again, Over Spending
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/us/politics/brinkmanship-again-at-fore-in-the-capitol.html?_r=1
...For the third time in a year, the divided 112th Congress is dancing on the edge of catastrophe, locked in a bitter partisan battle over fiscal measures, with unrelated policy debates clinging to the side...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/payroll-tax-cut-and-spending-bill-stall-in-senate-raising-threat-of-shutdown/2011/12/14/gIQAFdhuuO_story.html?hpid=z1
...Cabinet secretaries for the first time formally alerted affected federal workers Wednesday to the possibility of a shutdown indicating in an e-mail that they would determine later which staffers are essential to maintain operations in the event of a funding disruption....
Congress Takes Up a Partisan Battle, Again, Over Spending
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/us/politics/brinkmanship-again-at-fore-in-the-capitol.html?_r=1
...For the third time in a year, the divided 112th Congress is dancing on the edge of catastrophe, locked in a bitter partisan battle over fiscal measures, with unrelated policy debates clinging to the side...
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OMG. Ohio finally has re-drawn the districts. We are going to be in Boehner's district
DemReadingDU
Dec 2011
#22
One of the EU leaders said something like -- London wanted to be the Cayman Islands of the EU!
FarCenter
Dec 2011
#46