House Vote Brings Government To The Verge Of A Shutdown Plus 4 More Stories

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Daily Briefing A look at the day's top stories News House Vote Brings Government To The Verge Of A Shutdown The House voted to tie government funding to a one-year delay of Obamacare early Sunday morning. The measure is a non-starter in the Senate and the president vows to veto, making a government shutdown all the more likely. Read this story Insurance Exchanges Will Open to Scrutiny, Curiosity, Confusion On Tuesday, a key part of the Affordable Care Act is going live: People will be able to buy health insurance from new marketplaces in every state. Researchers and wonks will be intensely interested. Most of the rest of us will be clueless. Read this story House Ties Government Funding To One-Year Obamacare Delay House Republicans late Saturday prepared to pass a government funding bill that would include a one-year delay in implementing Obamacare. But the White House said President Obama would veto the House measure, on the unlikely chance it made it through the Senate. Read this story My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor (Or Thinks He Can) Increasingly, governors are criticizing each other's stances on taxes, guns and pensions, as well as working to lure businesses from other states. They used to defer more to each other. But like members of Congress, governors are having a harder time finding common ground. Read this story Mexican State's Anti-Corruption Plan: Hire Female Traffic Cops In the central State of Mexico, authorities are trying a new approach to fight corruption: replacing notoriously crooked male traffic cops with women. But the state hasn't authorized the female force to issue tickets yet, and some question whether women will avoid bribery any more than men. Read this story more news stories

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