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Senate staffers offered classes on forgiveness, relaxation, sleep

| Caroline May
Congress Sleep

Coburn demands harder look at stupid classes, red-ink shops other staff perks

IRS blames sequester for five-day closure

| Tim Cavanaugh
irsclosedsequester

Tax collector says ‘current budget situation’ causing cutbacks even though its budget is up

While private energy booms, Dems blame sequester - TheDCNF

| Michael Bastasch
Obama speaks at an oil and gas production fields on federal lands in New Mexico. Getty Images.

Feds to lose oil and gas revenue

FHA may receive $943 million taxpayer bailout from Obama administration - TheDCNF

| Betsi Fores
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Last November, FHA announced a projected cash shortfall of $16.3 billion

White House scolds media for failing to cover pain caused by sequester [VIDEO]

| Vince Coglianese

‘And I know that there hasn’t been a lot of coverage of the impacts on real people’

Feds withhold mineral royalties to states, citing sequestration

| Michael Bastasch
Coal Royalties

‘We’re always concerned about it being the tip of the iceberg’

Mark Levin: Harry Reid 'lowest of the low-lives,' 'bottom of the sewer,' 'a vicious stupid man' [AUDIO]

| Jeff Poor

Conservative commentator condemns Reid for remarks about Marine deaths

Harrison Ford on sequester: ‘Accidents are going to happen’ when FAA closes air traffic control towers [VIDEO]

| Nicholas Ballasy
Harrison Ford

‘I think the human cost is much too high’

Harry Reid ties sequester to deaths of seven Marines [VIDEO]

| Jeff Poor

Marine officials have pushed back against Reid’s remark

Obama blames his guards for closing White House tours

| Neil Munro
Obamas Secret Service

‘You know, I have to say this was not — a decision that went up to the White House’

THE BIG PURGE

| Nicholas Ballasy
Budget Battle Sky Is Falling.JPEG

‘Ridership is at an all-time high on Amtrak on the northeast corridor’

Krauthammer downplays Obama outreach to congressional Republicans [VIDEO]

| Jeff Poor

‘The problem is that he is not interested in cutting’

White House reacts to 7.7% unemployment: That was before sequestration

| Vince Coglianese
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Obama hedges on economic bump

Coburn offers FAA easy alternatives to closing towers, cutting air traffic controllers

| Caroline May
Sequester Coburn

Says waste, consultants, travel could make up for the $600 million cut without major safety disruptions

Poll: Majority support overall spending cuts, but oppose reductions in military spending

| Caroline May
The USS Monterey prepares to deploy from Naval Station Norfolk, Va. on Monday, March 7, 2011. The USS Monterey is the first ship to deploy a sea-based ballistic missile defense system. US had successfully completed the most challenging missile intercept test yet. AP Photo.

Percentages polled mimic sequester cuts that took effect at end of last week

White House Visitors Office director received $30,000 raise in 4 years

| Nicholas Ballasy
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Ellie S. Schafer’s salary went from $70,000 in 2009 to $100,000 in 2012

Playing nice? Obama launches outreach strategy to sway GOP legislators

| Neil Munro
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Obama has invited roughly 12 of the 45 GOP senators to meet for dinner

Congressman: No golf trips for Obama until White House tours resume [VIDEO]

| Nicholas Ballasy
President Obama at the Mid-Pacific Country Club in Kailua, Hawaii in 2009. AP Photo.

Would bar presidential ‘golf outing that causes 341 more federal officials to be furloughed and lose their job’

Congressman: Will Jay-Z and Beyoncé still get White House tours?

| Alex Pappas
President Obama speaks with Jay-Z and Beyonce. Scout Tufankjian/Obama for America.

‘Or will they be denied like those who aren’t rich and famous?’

Hume: Obama sequester tack 'the most peculiar behavior I have ever seen by a president' [VIDEO]

| Jeff Poor

Fox News senior political analyst says president wants to harm GOP