US government shutdown: Crisis in pics

House Rules Committee chairman U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) listens as the committee meets for debating rules for requesting a conference committee between the House and the Senate on the continuing resolution of a federal spending bill September 30, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The U.S. government was officially shut down at midnight after the Senate and the House of the Representatives failed to come to an agreement to pass a federal spending bill to keep the government running. (AFP)

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center, squeezes between Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., left, and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., right, as they return to negotiations following a news conference just before midnight at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. For the first time in nearly two decades, the federal government staggered into a partial shutdown Monday at midnight after congressional Republicans stubbornly demanded changes in the nation's health care law as the price for essential federal funding and President Barack Obama and Democrats adamantly refused. (AP)

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) (C) departs with an aide and his security detail after talks with the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives reached a final impasse during a late-night session at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, October 1, 2013. The U.S. government fell into a major shutdown over Republican efforts to halt President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms using a temporary spending bill as last minute maneuvers failed to resolve deep differences between Democrats and Republicans. REUTERS

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center, and House Democratic leaders speak to reporters just before midnight at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. The Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate are at an impasse as Congress continues to struggle over how to prevent a possible shutdown of the federal government when it runs out of money. Joining Pelosi are, from left, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn, D-S.C., (behind Van Hollen) Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md.  (AP)

The Ohio Clock which shows the time has just passed midnight stands on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol October 1, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The U.S. government was officially shut down after the Senate and the House of the Representatives failed to come to an agreement to pass a federal spending bill to keep the government running. (AFP)

Chairman of the House Rules Committee, Representative Pete Session (L) (R-TX) and Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sit after a late-night meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, September 30, 2013. The U.S. government was headed toward a major shutdown over Republican efforts to halt President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms using a temporary spending bill as last minute maneuvers failed to resolve deep differences between Democrats and Republicans. REUTERS

A Capitol Hill Police officer passes by the Ohio Clock which shows the time has just passed midnight on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol October 1, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The U.S. government was officially shut down after the Senate and the House of the Representatives failed to come to an agreement to pass a federal spending bill to keep the government running. (AFP)

Occupational therapist Janet Dallas (L) works with patient Keyiones King of Miami Gardens, FL in the Rehabilation Unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami September 30, 2013. The Obama administration accelerated its push to persuade individual Americans to sign up for the most extensive overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system in 50 years, the Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as "Obamacare"), even as the program's foes in Congress fought to delay its launch with the threat of a federal government shutdown. The Jackson Health System is the largest in Florida and one of the largest in the U.S.  REUTERS

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