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27 Sep, 2015

No government shutdown

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Boehner says to Dickerson on Face the Nation that there will be no government shutdown.

The Senate is expected to pass a continuing resolution next week, the House will take up the Senate bill.

Boehner said he’s certain the continuing resolution will require Democratic votes to pass, expects Democrats will want to keep the government open. Boehner also says said the House will establish a special committee to investigate the videos of abortion clinics

[They] really raise questions about the use of federal funds and raise questions about aborted fetuses and born-alive.

House Speaker John Boehner: There will not be a government shutdown

20 Sep, 2015

‘I’m a real person’

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Clinton is interviewed by Dickerson on Face The Nation. When asked to use three words to describe herself:

Just three? I can’t possibly do that! [Laughs] I mean, look, I am a real person with all the pluses and minuses that go along with being that. And I’ve been in the public eye for so long that I think, you know, it’s like the feature that you see in some magazines sometimes, ‘Real people actually go shopping,’ you know?’

She says she sees herself as an outsider:

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president. So you know, I’m not running for Bill’s third term, I’m not running for President Obama’s third term, but it would be foolish of me not to say, ‘You know, that worked better than what the Republicans offer.