What can still be done to avoid a government shutdown?

With a little over two days left for Congress to act, CBS News political director John Dickerson on what can be done to avoid a government shutdown

• Sep 28, 2013
• 01:32

Government by deadline: Why can't Congress just do its job?

Careening from budget crisis to budget crisis, our divided government seems unable to act in the absence of a rock and a hard place

• Sep 28, 2013
• 03:23

Issa snaps at reporter who predicts budget bill failure

California Republican berates reporter for suggesting the House GOP's budget strategy is doomed to failure

• Sep 28, 2013
• 02:09

"Common sense" to tie debt ceiling to spending cuts, GOP Rep. says

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., defends Republicans' decision to issue a list of demands in exchange for raising the debt ceiling

• Sep 28, 2013
• 02:36

Obama: "Pass a budget on time, and pay our bills on time"

President Obama pushes Congress to meet its fiscal deadlines in his weekly address

• Sep 28, 2013
• 05:22

GOP feuds increasing likelihood of government shutdown

Republicans, bickering about the feasibility of defunding Obamacare, can't agree among themselves on a strategy to keep the government funded

• Sep 27, 2013
• 03:08

Cruz: Democrats ignoring the American people on Obamacare

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, condemns Senate Democrats - and some Republicans - for advancing a spending bill with funding for Obamacare intact

• Sep 27, 2013
• 01:54

Reid pushes House to approve bill with Obamacare funding

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., says the "time for games is over," pushing the House of Representatives to accept a bill funding Obamacare

• Sep 27, 2013
• 02:08

Christie: It's irresponsible to threaten gov't. shutdown

Gov. Chris Christie talks about his party's involvement in a possible government shutdown in this preview of a Tracy Smith feature on this week's "CBS Sunday Morning"

• Sep 27, 2013
• 01:32

Gov't shutdown looms with just four days left to resolve stalemate

House Speaker John Boehner laid down a new gauntlet in theeffort to avert a government shutdown, announcing House Republicans will not accept the bill the Senate sends to them as is

• Sep 27, 2013
• 02:54

Obama: Obamacare criticism "just not based on facts"

Rebutting critics of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama observes, "Every time they have predicted something not working, it's worked"

• Sep 26, 2013
• 02:15

Obama ridicules "desperate" GOP arguments against Obamacare

President Obama says Republicans' "crazy" arguments against Obamacare show they are worried the law will work

• Sep 26, 2013
• 04:17

Reid: GOP putting "gun to the head" of American people

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., says Republicans should stop using the threat of a shutdown or default to push their agenda

• Sep 26, 2013
• 01:48

Boehner: Obama will have to negotiate on debt limit

House Speaker John Boehner brushes aside President Obama's insistence that he won't negotiate with Republicans over the debt limit

• Sep 26, 2013
• 00:50

GOP echoes Cruz on Obamacare, but doesn't want to risk gov't shutdown

Senator Ted Cruz's marathon speech on the Senate floor is over, and now the hard part begins on Capitol Hill

• Sep 26, 2013
• 02:57

Dickerson: Cruz's speech "wasn't a waste of time"

CBS News political director John Dickerson discusses if Congress will avoid a government shutdown, whether Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's marathon speech accomplished anything, and reactions to his speech on Capitol Hill

• Sep 26, 2013
• 02:24

How did fellow Republicans react to Cruz's 21-hour talkathon?

Sen. Ted Cruz spoke for more than 21 hours on the Senate floor in an effort to ensure any budget deal cuts off funding for Obamacare

• Sep 25, 2013
• 03:12

W.H. reiterates: No negotiating over debt ceiling, period

White House spokesman Jay Carney accuses Republicans of trying to play political games with America's full faith and credit

• Sep 25, 2013
• 03:27

Cruz's Senate speech generates ill will among GOP colleagues

Sen. Ted Cruz took to the Senate floor to give a prolonged speech in an effort to convince colleagues to block any spending bill that preserves Obamacare funding

• Sep 24, 2013
• 01:24

Coburn: "We don't have the ability" to defund Obamacare

Oklahoma Republican throws cold water on suggestions from some in his party that Congress can defund Obamacare during the budget fight

• Sep 22, 2013
• 06:24

Rep. Salmon: Defunding Obamacare "the will of the people"

Arizona Republican says he wants to shut down Obamacare, not the government

• Sep 22, 2013
• 04:23

Ben Stein tells GOP to cool it on budget crisis

"Sunday Morning" contributor Ben Stein is "horrified" by the political drama between Congressional Republicans and Democrats and the threat to shut down the government

• Sep 22, 2013
• 02:08

Obama: Far-right Republicans putting "our entire economy at risk"

President Obama warns of the consequences that would result from a government shutdown or a failure to raise the debt limit

• Sep 21, 2013
• 04:51

Gov. Sandoval: Washington could learn from Nevada

Gov. Brian Sandoval, R-Nev., touts economic resurgence in Nevada, tells Washington to take note

• Sep 21, 2013
• 05:40

Obama: Republicans "would plunge America into default"

President Obama says Republicans' drive to undo Obamacare shows they're focused on political games, not on solving problems

• Sep 20, 2013
• 04:16

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