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Showdown in Congress on Obamacare and automatic budget cuts
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Sep 23, 2013
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Showdown in Congress on Obamacare and automatic budget cuts
The bipartisan conversations over Syria are over. Congress is locked once again in a bitter budget battle.
An effort to curb the amount of phone surveillance by the NSA failed 217-205 vote in Congress yesterday.
Stormy days ahead in Congress as lawmakers tackle budget deadline.
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The bipartisan conversations over Syria are over. Congress is locked once again in a bitter budget battle.

State lawmakers have complained for years about dysfunction in California's capitol. Now a couple of those lawmakers have been elected to Congress, and they've found a whole new level of dysfunction there. KPCC's Washington Correspondent Kitty Felde reports.