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With less than two days before the country will reach its borrowing limit, Congress remained stalled on how to reopen the government and raise the nation's debt ceiling, with provisions of the healthcare reform law still a sticking point in the negotiations.
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U.S. Senate leaders from both parties Monday indicated they're optimistic about reaching a deal to end the government shutdown with an agreement that sources say is likely to include a few Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provisions.
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House Republican leaders are poised to offer President Barack Obama a plan that calls for a short-term hike in the nation's debt limit without immediately reopening the government.
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Defending the shaky rollout of his healthcare law, President Barack Obama said frustrated Americans "definitely shouldn't give up" on the problem-plagued program at the heart of his dispute with Republicans over reopening the federal government.
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The House moved to restart funding for the National Institutes of Health and some other popular government services Wednesday, but Republican and Democratic congressional leaders left the White House later without any path forward to end the government shutdown entering its third day.
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Locked in a deepening struggle with President Barack Obama, House Republicans demanded a one-year delay in major parts of the nation's new healthcare law and permanent repeal of a tax on medical devices Saturday as the price for preventing a partial government shutdown threatened for early Tuesday.
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As Congress remains paralyzed over a short-term spending bill to fund the government after Sept. 30, analysts are looking ahead at key health policy issues other than the reform law that have taken a back seat during the spending fights and at how, where and when they might resurface.
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A potential federal shutdown hurtling ever closer, the Senate on Friday dealt an emphatic defeat to a core of rebellious young conservatives opposed to Obamacare and approved legislation preventing government agencies from closing next week.
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The nation inched closer to a government shutdown on Thursday as leaders in Congress stayed entrenched in their respective positions with the reform law at the center of the fight.
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President Barack Obama on Thursday ridiculed Republican opponents for "crazy" doomsday predictions of the impact of his signature healthcare overhaul.
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