The two spots in Washington that Christie wants to eliminate
Updated 11:05 a.m. ET 10/1/2013
Washington (CNN) – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday the budget stalemate in Congress would look a lot different if he were in the White House.
Answering questions at an event for the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, the New Jersey Republican also named his least two least favorite spots in Washington.
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'Funny or Die' takes on Obamacare
(CNN) - Singer and actress Jennifer Hudson teamed up with "Funny or Die" to make a video that aims to show Obamacare isn't so "scandalous" after all.
Mimicking the show "Scandal," Hudson goes about trying to fix people's problems in Washington, the main plot line of the ABC program. To her own frustration, she comes to find out their struggles aren't so juicy. In this episode, Obamacare ends up saving the day.
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Hillary Clinton gets political
Washington (CNN) - Hillary Clinton delivered a very personal speech in support of her longtime friend Terry McAuliffe Monday night during a fundraiser she held at her home for his Virginia gubernatorial candidacy, one attendee told CNN.
This event marked Clinton's first foray into electoral politics since she left the State Department at the beginning of the year.
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Senior House Republican: GOP is taking a risk, but has 'strong ground'
Washington (CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner said the House is "not going to be left holding the hot potato" by the midnight deadline to avert a government shutdown, a senior House Republican member told CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger.
Boehner's comments came at a Republican meeting earlier Monday, the source said.
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Moderate House Republicans failed to line up votes for separate plan
Updated 7:30 p.m. ET 9/30/13
Washington (CNN) - Moderate House Republicans who wanted to fund the government with no strings attached failed to line up votes against a House GOP plan to renew federal coffers while chipping away at Obamacare.
Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pennsylvania, Rep. Peter King, R-New York, and others feverishly made calls to stage what would have been effectively a revolt.
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Transcript: Obama speaks on potential government shutdown
(CNN) - Speaking from the White House, President Barack Obama on Monday warned that a federal shutdown would throw a wrench into the gears of the economy and would represent the "height of irresponsibility."
Read his full remarks below.
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Congress can agree on one thing: military will be paid if government shuts down
Updated 10:42 p.m. ET 9/30/2013
Washington (CNN) - Despite bitter partisanship that threatened a government shutdown, Congress actually managed to come together to pass one bill on Monday –unanimously, at that.
The Senate signed off on a House-approved measure to ensure members of the military would continue to get paid if congressional wrangling over spending and Obamacare resulted in a shutdown.
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CNN's GUT CHECK for September 30, 2013
CNN's GUT CHECK | for September 30, 2013 | 5 p.m.
– n. a pause to assess the state, progress or condition of the political news cycle
BREAKING: OBAMA: GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN ‘DOES NOT HAVE TO HAPPEN’… Hours before the federal government is set to shutdown, President Barack Obama said late Monday afternoon that Congress’ failure to avert a shutdown would represent the "height of irresponsibility.” “One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, does not get to shut down the government to fight the results of an election,” Obama said in a statement delivered from the White House press briefing room. "You don't get to extract a ransom for doing your job.”
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FORTUNE: The DNC is nearly broke
(FORTUNE) - There's another budget crisis in Washington, and it's unfolding inside the Democratic party. The Democratic National Committee remains so deeply in the hole from spending in the last election that it is struggling to pay its own vendors.
It is a highly unusual state of affairs for a national party - especially one that can deploy the President as its fundraiser-in-chief - and it speaks to the quiet but serious organizational problems the party has yet to address since the last election, obscured in part by the much messier spectacle of GOP infighting.
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Congress sinks to all-time low in CNN polling
Washington (CNN) - As the hours wind down toward a possible government shutdown because of a bitter partisan battle over the new health care law, the approval rating for Congress is plummeting to historic lows.
And a CNN/ORC International poll indicates that it's not just Congress and its top leaders that are making history for all the wrong reasons, but also the tea party movement and the Democratic and Republican parties, too.
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