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• Government Shutdown Averted; Reps Eye Obamacare (ContributorNetwork)
• Budget Deal is the Latest of Numerous Compromises (ContributorNetwork)
• Obama at Lincoln Memorial, open after budget deal (AP)
• Donald Trump Rises in the Polls, Could Be True Presidential Contender (ContributorNetwork)
• Clinton, Gore remember McWherter at Tenn. service (AP)
• Icesave 'no' vote wins in referendum: partial results (AFP)
• Colorado mom shocked to hear Obama quote her email (AP)
• Bomb blasts hit Nigerian bid for credible elections (AFP)
• Obama, Boehner each earn wins in budget pact (AP)
• Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Heads for Heated Ballot Review (ContributorNetwork)
• I Wish Cutting Legislator Pay Would Help, but it Won't (ContributorNetwork)
• Wis. Rep.'s Medicare plan worries local voters (AP)
• Budget deal avoids shutdown, fight ahead (Reuters)
• Corrected: Deal reached to keep U.S. government running (Reuters)

Government Shutdown Averted; Reps Eye Obamacare (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 09 Apr 2011 02:08 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | A government shutdown was averted, but narrowly, and not for lack of trying. Representatives got $38.5 billion in spending cuts in exchange for status quo family planning agencies. Democrats also made Republicans agree to let up on some environmentally unfriendly policies.

Budget Deal is the Latest of Numerous Compromises (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 09 Apr 2011 02:08 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reached a budget deal late Friday night, where $38.5 billion more in budget cuts for fiscal year 2011 is coming if officially passed by Congress next week. That was short of the $61 billion Republicans and tea partiers in Congress had been fighting for. To see the leaders of this country come together in the 11th hour to avoid a government shutdown isn't the first time that compromise was needed in order to keep America from going off the abyss ... at least for the time being.

Obama at Lincoln Memorial, open after budget deal (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2011 01:12 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama made the short trip from the White House to the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to make clear that the country's national parks and monuments are open for business.

Donald Trump Rises in the Polls, Could Be True Presidential Contender (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 09 Apr 2011 12:52 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - As odd as it might sound, businessman and reality show star Donald Trump could be a real contender for the Republican nomination for a 2012 presidential bid.

Clinton, Gore remember McWherter at Tenn. service (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2011 05:19 PM PDT AP - Former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore on Saturday remembered Ned McWherter, Tennessee's governor from 1987 to 1995, as a politician with a special way of connecting with everyday people.

Icesave 'no' vote wins in referendum: partial results (AFP) Posted: 09 Apr 2011 04:51 PM PDT AFP - Voters in Iceland gave a resounding "no" in a referendum on whether to approve a renegotiated deal to compensate Britain and The Netherlands over the 2008 collapse of Icesave bank, according to first partial results quoted late Saturday by RUV public radio.

Colorado mom shocked to hear Obama quote her email (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2011 04:50 PM PDT AP - A Colorado mom says she and her family were watching TV in their pajamas when she heard President Barack Obama read from an email telling him how a government shutdown could spoil her son's school trip to Washington.

Bomb blasts hit Nigerian bid for credible elections (AFP) Posted: 09 Apr 2011 02:21 PM PDT AFP - Nigerians voted in large numbers Saturday in the first of a series of key elections in Africa's most populous nation, but deadly bomb blasts cast a shadow over the country's bid to hold credible polls.

Obama, Boehner each earn wins in budget pact (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2011 02:20 PM PDT AP - Rivals in a divided government, President Barack Obama and the most powerful Republican in Congress split their differences to stave off a federal shutdown that neither combatant was willing to risk.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Heads for Heated Ballot Review (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 09 Apr 2011 02:08 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - The Wisconsin Supreme Court election was always set to be under review. However, the election may become the biggest political lightning rod in Wisconsin yet, if that's even possible. The Supreme Court results between Justice David Prosser and JoAnne Kloppenburg seemed destined to go to a normal recount, with Kloppenburg as the stunning leader. But as per usual in this state, nothing is going to be normal in the next several weeks.

I Wish Cutting Legislator Pay Would Help, but it Won't (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 09 Apr 2011 12:52 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Members of Congress will make $165,200 this year, with the exception of the majority leaders and speaker of the house. The senate majority and minority leaders will make $183,500 and the Speaker of the house will make $212,100. There are 530 rank and file members of Congress. A calculator and 15 seconds will tell you that the sum of salaries paid to federal legislators is $88,502,100.

Wis. Rep.'s Medicare plan worries local voters (AP) Posted: 09 Apr 2011 12:46 PM PDT AP - Brian Krutsch has been long one of many automatic votes here for Rep.

Budget deal avoids shutdown, fight ahead (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2011 01:58 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama signed a short-term spending bill on Saturday that averted a government shutdown, formalizing a compromise deal with Republicans that paves the way for more -- and bigger -- deficit-reduction fights to come.

Corrected: Deal reached to keep U.S. government running (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2011 10:51 AM PDT Reuters - Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress clinched a short-term budget deal to keep the federal government running for a week after hammering out an agreement to cut domestic spending.

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