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**FILE** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., tells reporters that Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and House Republicans are the obstacle to ending the government shutdown crisis, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. President Barack Obama brought congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday for the first time since a partial government shutdown began, but there was no sign of progress toward ending an impasse that has idled 800,000 federal workers and curbed services around the country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Reid apologizes for nasty tone on Senate floor

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks President Obama. (Associated Press photographs)

Obama backs part of House shutdown strategy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

PAUL: Obama’s response to shutdown is just ‘shut up’

By Sen. Rand Paul

Veteran Raul Sanchez and others protests the government shutdown at the San Antonio office of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. Texas is one of the richest beneficiaries of federal spending, with its military bases, Gulf Coast seaports, and nearly 2,000-mile border with Mexico. (Associated Press photographs)

House passes bills to fund safety and security agencies during shutdown

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration by M. Ryder

LAMBRO: Playing up the government shutdown

By Donald Lambro

Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Bender (left) shakes hands with Bernie Herpin as George Rivera looks on after the two Republicans were sworn in Thursday as state senators, having defeated Democratic senators in a recall over new gun restrictions in October. They replace John Morse and Angela Giron of Pueblo. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Recalled over guns, loser fires parting shot

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., pauses outside the West Wing of the White House after meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. Obama and congressional leaders met at the White House on the second day of a partial government shutdown. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Senate Democrats block reopening of NIH, national parks

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The dead-end kid

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: GOP establishment turns deaf ear

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks to reporters following a meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Boehner says Obama still won’t negotiate on government funding

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama stands with people who support the Affordable Care Act, his signature health care law, as he speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law forced about 800,000 federal workers off the job, suspending all but essential services. At second right is Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

MILLER: Obama opts to shut down for Obamacare

By Emily Miller

Democrats’ immigration bill leaves out security

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Associated Press)

Shutdown has not shut off money tap for members of Congress

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Ron Binz (From Ron Binz' Public Policy Consulting website)

White House concedes defeat on Ron Binz, key energy nominee

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat (Associated Press)

Sen. Dick Durbin: Compromise possible on medical device tax

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

The dome of the Capitol is reflected in a skylight of the Capitol Visitor's Center in Washington on Jan. 1, 2013. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Government shutdown begins as gridlocked Congress gives up

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The hyperbole disease

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) speaks with his communications director Adam Jentleson, right, as he heads to a meeting with democratic leaders hours before a Monday night deadline on a government funding bill threatens the first government shutdown in 17 years, Washington, D.C., Monday, September 30, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Senate again rebuffs House as shutdown clock ticks down to midnight

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie could seize an opportunity with a split conservative electorate in the 2016 Republican presidential primary contests. Campaign strategists see a pattern of moderate candidates winning the GOP nomination and ultimately losing to a Democrat, but conservatives hope to break that cycle.

Conservatives fear another split Republican vote, with path for Christie win

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times