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** FILE ** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. (Associated Press)

Reid on helping one child with cancer: ‘Why would we want to do that?’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, walks to the House Floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Lawmakers from both parties urged one another in a rare weekend session to give ground in their fight over preventing a federal shutdown, with the midnight Monday deadline fast approaching. But there was no sign of yielding Saturday in a down-to-the-wire struggle that tea party lawmakers are using to try derailing President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

House passes bill to delay Obamacare, keep government funded

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, emerges from the Senate chamber after his overnight crusade railing against the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Ted Cruz: GOP has compromised on Obamacare; now it’s Democrats’ turn

By David Eldridge - The Washington Times

With four days to go before the federal government is due to run out of money, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (left), Nevada Democrat, looks at a countdown clock during a Sept. 26, 2013, news conference on Capitol in Washington, where Senate Democratic leaders blamed conservative Republicans for holding up a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running. From left are Reid, Senate Budget Committee Chair Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois, Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, and Charles Schumer of New York, the Democratic Policy Committee chairman. (Associated Press)

Republican infighting over health care flares in Senate as shutdown looms

By Jacqueline Klimas and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

FRANKS: Repealing Obamacare by defending the Constitution

By Trent Franks

This image from Senate video show Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaking on the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Cruz says he will speak until he's no longer able to stand in opposition to President Barack Obama's health care law. Cruz began a lengthy speech urging his colleagues to oppose moving ahead on a bill he supports. The measure would prevent a government shutdown and defund Obamacare. (AP Photo/Senate TV)

As Sen. Ted Cruz gives a long speech, Treasury gets short on funding

By Stephen Dinan and Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

**FILE** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speaks Sept. 19, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)

Harry Reid: There is no filibuster

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, leaves the floor of the Senate after skirmishing with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., over the Affordable Care Act, popularly know as "Obamacare," at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Ted Cruz’s talkathon mostly a spectacle

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

HOLTZ-EAKIN: Obamacare hangs in the balance

By Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KIBBE: Speeding toward the collision

By Matt Kibbe

Sen. Ted Cruz (Associated Press)

Sen. Ted Cruz fights for his own victory with threat of government shutdown

By Stephen Dinan and Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky's Secretary of State (sos.ky.gov)

Senate hopeful Alison Lundergan Grimes bashed in Kentucky over links to Sen. Harry Reid

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, following a Democratic strategy session. (Associated Press)

Harry Reid, Democrats mock GOP leaders, decry effort to defund Obamacare

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, said Republicans are "playing with fire" with a bill that would prevent a partial government shutdown and avoid a historic national default while canceling out President Obama's health care overhaul. (Associated Press)

House Republicans pass test vote to defund Obamacare; shutdown edges closer

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

White House spokesman Jay Carney speaks during the daily White House press briefing on Sept. 17, 2013 in Washington. (Associated Press)

White House raps GOP gun-control blockage amid Navy Yard rampage

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, following a Democratic strategy session. (Associated Press)

Sen. Harry Reid: Obstructionist Republicans need to ‘grow up’ on health law issue

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, following a Democratic strategy session. (Associated Press)

Sen. Harry Reid moans: The ‘anarchists’ have taken over Congress

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican (Associated Press)

John McCain rebuked by Ariz. GOP for ‘unbecoming’ deal-making with Dems

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Senate puts off Syria vote

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, heads to the Senate floor on Sept. 6, 2013, to introduce a resolution for the authorization of military action in support of President Obama's request for a strike against Syria. (Associated Press)

Senate moves to Syria debate

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times