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President Barack Obama signs legislation to reopen government and avert default; federal employees directed to return to work

Our lat­est Repub­­li­­can-insti­­gat­ed man­u­fac­tured fis­cal cri­sis is over. Final­ly. From the White House, received moments ago: On Thurs­day, Octo­ber 17, 2013, the Pres­i­dent signed into law: H.R. 2775, the “Con­tin­u­ing Appro­pri­a­tions Act, 2014,” which pro­vides fis­cal year 2014 appro­pri­a­tions for projects and activ­i­ties of the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment through Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 15, 2014.  The effec­tive time for the continuing […]