In any case , Boehner ’s proposal fell flat in the Senate , where members of both parties were clamoring to end the shutdown .

Question: What felled?

Boehner ’s proposal

Question: How did something fell?

flat

Question: Where did something fell?

in the Senate

Question: Who was clamoring?

members of both parties

Question: Why was someone clamoring?

to end the shutdown

Question: What was someone clamoring to do?

end the shutdown

Question: Who ended something?

members of both parties

Question: What was ended?

the shutdown


Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid ( D - Nev . ) , speaking to reporters after a White House meeting between Obama and Senate Democrats , said the shutdown must end and the debt ceiling must be raised ahead of negotiations with the Republicans , who he complained keep changing their demands .

Question: Who is speaking?

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid

Question: Who did someone speak to?

reporters

Question: When did someone speak for something?

Question: Who said something?

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid

Question: What did someone say?

Question: What will end?

the shutdown

Question: What is be raised?

the debt ceiling

Question: When is something be raised?

ahead of negotiations

Question: Why is something be raised?

Question: Who complained something?

the Republicans

Republicans

he

Question: What did someone complain?

keep changing their demands

Question: Who keeps doing something?

the Republicans

Republicans

he

Question: What does someone keep  doing?

changing their demands

Question: Who was changing something?

the Republicans

Republicans

he

Question: What is someone changing?

their demands


“ This is a situation where they do not know what they want , ” Reid said .

Question: Who doesn't know something?

they

Question: What doesn't someone know?

what they want

Question: Who wants something?

they

Question: Who said something?

Reid


His message to the GOP : “ Open the government .

Question: What is being opened?

the government


Question: What is being paid?

our bills


We ’ll negotiate with you about anything . ”

Question: Who ’ll?

We

Question: Who negotiates?

We ’ll

Question: Who does someone negotiate with?

you

Question: What does someone negotiate with?

about anything

anything


Reid also said that Senate Democrats would “ look at anything [ House Republicans ] send us , ” but when asked about negotiating with them before reopening the government , he replied : “ Not going to happen . ”

Question: Who said something?

Reid

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who will something?

Senate Democrats

Question: What does someone will?

Question: Who look?

Senate Democrats

Question: What would someone look at?

anything [ House Republicans ] send us

Question: What is someone send?

anything

Question: Who sends someone?

House Republicans

Question: Who does someone send?

us

Question: Who was asked?

Senate Democrats

Question: What was someone asked about?

negotiating with them

Question: Who negotiate with something?

Senate Democrats

Question: Who was someone negotiating with?

them

Question: When was someone negotiate with someone?

before reopening the government

Question: Who reopened something?

Senate Democrats

Question: What was reopened?

the government

Question: Who replied something?

Reid

he

Question: What did someone reply?

“ Not going to happen

Question: What isn't someone go to do?

to happen

happen


Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ( R - Ky . ) , meanwhile , was consulting fellow Republican senators to develop a proposal , advanced by Sen. Susan Collins ( R - Maine ) , to end the shutdown and raise the federal debt limit for as long as three months .

Question: Who was consulting someone?

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

Question: Who was someone consulting?

fellow Republican senators

Question: Why was someone being consulted?

to develop a proposal

Question: Who developed something?

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

fellow Republican senators

Question: What did someone develop?

a proposal

Question: What was advanced?

a proposal

Question: Who advanced something?

Sen. Susan Collins

Sen. Susan Collins ( R - Maine )

Question: Why was someone advanced?

Question: What did someone end?

a proposal

Question: What was ended?

the shutdown

Question: What is being raised?

the federal debt limit

Question: How long is someone raise something?

for as long as three months

as long as three months


The package sparked the first bipartisan negotiations since the standoff began in early September .

Question: What sparked something?

The package

Question: What did something spark?

the first bipartisan negotiations

Question: What began?

the standoff

Question: When did something begin?

in early September

early September


But Collins ’s proposal called for Democratic concessions including repeal of a tax on medical devices needed to fund Obama ’s health - care initiative , and it would maintain deep budget cuts known sequestration through at least March .

Question: What called for something?

Collins ’s proposal

Question: What did something call for?

Democratic concessions

Question: What includes something?

Democratic concessions

Question: What does something include?

repeal of a tax on medical devices

Question: What is needed?

a tax on medical devices

medical devices

Question: Why is something needed?

Question: What funds something?

a tax on medical devices

medical devices

Question: Who is being funded?

Obama

Question: What is being funded?

Obama ’s health - care initiative

Question: What will to do something?

it

Question: What did something will  do?

Question: What would maintain something?

it

Question: What would something maintain?

deep budget cuts

deep budget cuts known sequestration

Question: When will something maintain something?

through at least March

Question: What is known?

deep budget cuts

sequestration

Question: When is something known?

through at least March


The House GOP plan would suspend the debt limit until Nov. 22 , the Friday before Thanksgiving , while also forbidding Treasury Secretary Jack Lew from using “ extraordinary measures ” that his department has used in recent years to extend his borrowing authority for weeks after the ceiling is reached , according to a senior GOP aide who was in the room .

Question: What will something?

The House GOP plan

Question: What did something will  do?

suspend the debt limit

Question: What would suspend something?

The House GOP plan

Question: What would something suspend?

the debt limit

Question: When will something suspend something?

until Nov. 22

Question: What forbids someone something?

The House GOP plan

Question: Who is being forbidden?

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew

Question: What is something forbidden from?

using “ extraordinary measures

Question: Who was use something?

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew

Question: What is someone use?

“ extraordinary measures

Question: Who has used something?

his department

Question: When has someone used something?

in recent years

Question: Why has someone used something?

to extend his borrowing authority

Question: Who extended something?

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew

his department

Question: When did someone extend something?

in recent years

recent years

Question: What did someone extend?

his borrowing authority

Question: How long did someone extend something?

for weeks after the ceiling is reached

Question: What is reached?

the ceiling

Question: What is according to someone?

Question: Who is something according to?

a senior GOP aide

a senior GOP aide who was in the room


This creates a hard “ X date , ” as financial analysts call the issue , leaving no wiggle room beyond that day .

Question: What creates something?

This

Question: What does something create?

a hard “ X date

Question: Who calls something?

financial analysts

Question: What does someone call something?

the issue

Question: What is being left?

no wiggle room

Question: When is something being left?

beyond that day


The House Republicans essentially are offering a “ clean ” debt - limit increase in exchange for negotiations over reopening the government , aides said .

Question: Who is offering something?

The House Republicans

Question: What is someone offering?

a “ clean ” debt - limit increase

Question: Why is someone offering something?

Question: What is being reopened?

the government

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who said something?

aides


The government shutdown would not end until Obama agreed to “ structural reforms ” to the tax code and federal health programs .

Question: What would something?

The government shutdown

Question: What did something will?

not end

Question: What doesn't end?

The government shutdown

Question: When doesn't something end?

Question: Who agreed to do something?

Obama

Question: What did someone agree to?

“ structural reforms


The Republican plan for a six - week increase in the debt limit , without conservative strings attached , was aimed chiefly at calming jittery financial markets , according to senior GOP advisers .

Question: What was attached?

conservative strings

Question: What was aimed?

The Republican plan

Question: How was something aimed?

at calming jittery financial markets

Question: What was something aimed on?

calming jittery financial markets

Question: What calmed something?

Question: What is being calmed?

jittery financial markets

Question: What is according to someone?

Question: Who is something according to?

senior GOP advisers


Financial markets soared earlier Thursday on the first sign of optimistic news out of Washington in almost a month , with the Dow Jones industrial average up 169 points in the first 15 minutes of trading .

Question: What soared?

Financial markets

Question: When did something soar?

earlier Thursday


The rally continued when Boehner confirmed the plan at an 11 a.m. press briefing , and by 1:30 p.m. the Dow was up more than 225 points .

Question: What continued?

The rally

Question: When did something continue?

when Boehner confirmed the plan

Question: Who confirmed something?

Boehner

Question: What did someone confirme?

the plan

Question: Where did someone confirme something?

at an 11 a.m. press briefing


The plan was presented to the House GOP caucus Thursday morning after Lew warned lawmakers that he would be unable to guarantee payments to any group — whether Social Security recipients or U.S. bondholders — unless Congress raises the federal debt ceiling .

Question: What was presented?

The plan

Question: Who was something presented to?

the House GOP caucus

Question: When was something presented to something?

Thursday morning

Question: Who warned someone something?

Lew

Question: Who did someone warn something?

lawmakers

Question: What did someone warn someone?

Question: Who would something?

Lew

Question: Who will something?

he

Question: What does someone will?

Question: Who doesn't guarantee something?

he

Question: What isn't someone guarantee?

payments

payments to any group

Question: Who raises something?

Congress

Question: What is being raised?

the federal debt ceiling


If the GOP plan goes over well with rank - and - file Republicans , Boehner could put the legislation on the floor for a vote late Thursday , aides said .

Question: What goes?

the GOP plan

Question: How does something go?

over well

Question: Where does something go?

Question: Who can put something?

Boehner

Question: What can someone put?

the legislation

Question: Where can someone put something?

on the floor

Question: Why can someone put something?

for a vote

Question: When can someone put something?

late Thursday

Question: Who said something?

aides


House Majority Leader Eric Cantor ( R - Va . ) described the plan at the news briefing as “ a temporary extension of the debt ceiling in exchange for a real commitment by the president and the Senate majority leader to sit down and talk about the pressing problems ” facing the country .

Question: Who described something?

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor

Question: What did someone describe?

the plan

Question: Where did someone describe something?

at the news briefing

Question: How did someone describe something?

Question: Who sits somewhere?

Question: Where does someone sit?

down

Question: Who talks about something?

Question: What is being talked about?

the pressing problems

Question: What is pressing?

problems

Question: What is facing something?

the pressing problems

Question: What is something facing?

the country


Rep. Kevin McCarty ( R - Calif . ) , the House majority whip , characterized these problems as “ drivers ” of increasing federal debt .

Question: Who characterized something?

Rep. Kevin McCarty

Rep. Kevin McCarty ( R - Calif . )

the House majority whip

Question: What did someone characterize?

these problems

Question: How did someone characterize something?

Question: What did someone characterize something as?

“ drivers ” of increasing federal debt

Question: What is increasing?

federal debt


Obama has indicated he could support a short - term debt - limit hike , but he has also demanded that Republicans allow the government to reopen before he would negotiate with the GOP .

Question: Who has indicated something?

Obama

Question: What has someone indicated?

Question: Who might support something?

Obama

Question: Who can support something?

he

Question: What can someone support?

a short - term debt - limit hike

Question: Who has demanded something?

Obama

he

Question: What did someone demand?

Question: Who allows something?

Republicans

Question: Who is someone allow?

the government

Question: What does someone allow someone to do?

to reopen

Question: When does someone allow something?

before he would negotiate with the GOP

Question: Who reopen?

the government

Question: When is someone reopen?

before he would negotiate with the GOP

Question: Who would something?

Obama

he

Question: What did someone will  doing?

negotiate with the GOP

Question: Who negotiate with something?

Obama

Question: Who would negotiate?

he

Question: Who would someone negotiate with?

the GOP


If the Republicans want to negotiate , they should “ reopen the government , extend the debt ceiling , ” Obama said last week .

Question: Who wants to do something?

the Republicans

Republicans

Question: What does someone want?

to negotiate

Question: What does someone want to do?

negotiate

Question: Who negotiates?

the Republicans

Question: Who reopen something?

they

Question: What is someone reopen?

the government

Question: Who extends something?

they

Question: What is being extended?

the debt ceiling

Question: Who said something?

Obama

Question: When did someone say something?

last week


“ If they ca n’t do it for a long time , do it for the period of time in which these negotiations are taking place . ”

Question: What is taking something?

these negotiations

negotiations

Question: What is something taking?

place


Carney , the White House spokesman , told reporters Thursday afternoon : “ The president is happy that cooler heads at least seem to be prevailing in the House , that there at least seems to be a recognition that default is not an option . ”

Question: Who told someone something?

Carney

the White House spokesman

Question: Who did someone tell something?

reporters

Question: When did someone tell something?

Thursday afternoon

Question: What did someone tell someone?

Question: What seems to do something?

cooler heads

Question: What does something seem to do?

to be prevailing in the House

Question: What is prevailing?

cooler heads

Question: Where is something prevailing?

in the House

Question: What is something prevailing in?

the House

Question: When does something seem to do something?

at least

Question: What does something seem to do?


However , Obama “ believes it would be far better . . .

Question: Who believes something?

Obama “

Question: What does someone believe?

it would be far better

Question: What will something?

it

Question: What does something will?

be far better


to raise the debt ceiling for an extended period of time , ” as Senate Democrats are proposing .

Question: What is being raised?

the debt ceiling

Question: When is something being raised?

for an extended period of time

Question: Why is someone proposing something?

Question: Who is proposing something?

Senate Democrats


“ It would be far better for the economy if we stopped this episodic brinksmanship and . . .

Question: What will something?

It

Question: What did something will?

be far better for the economy

Question: Who stopped something?

we

Question: What did someone stop?

this episodic brinksmanship


mothballed the nuclear weapon here , which is the threat of default , for a longer duration , ” Carney said .

Question: What was mothballed?

the nuclear weapon

Question: Where was something mothballed?

here

Question: Who said something?

Carney


“ But it is certainly at least an encouraging sign that . . .


they are not listening to the debt - limit and default deniers . ”

Question: Who doesn't listen?

they

Question: What isn't someone listen to?

the debt - limit and default deniers


If Republicans now recognize that default can not be permitted , he added , “ why keep the nuclear weapon in your back pocket ? ”

Question: Who recognizes something?

Republicans

Question: When does someone recognize something?

now

Question: What does someone recognize?

that default can not be permitted

Question: What can't be permitted?

default

Question: Why did someone add something?

Question: Who added something?

he

Question: What did someone add?

Question: What is being kept?

the nuclear weapon

Question: Where is something being kept?

in your back pocket


[ Members of Congress are collecting pay during the shutdown . ]

Question: Who is collecting something?

Members of Congress

Question: What is someone collecting?

pay

Question: When is someone collecting something?

during the shutdown


The first reactions from Republican House members appeared generally positive .

Question: What appeared?

Question: How did something appear?

generally positive

positive


But several insisted they would back the measure only with a commitment from the president to open negotiations over the next debt - ceiling hike .

Question: Who insisted something?

several

Question: What did someone insist?

they would back the measure

Question: Who would something?

several

they

Question: What did someone will?

back the measure

Question: Who would back something?

several

they

Question: What would someone back?

the measure

Question: How is someone back something?

Question: Who opened something?

the president

Question: What is being opened?

negotiations

Question: What is someone open?


“ All we ’re doing is saying , if the president has n’t come towards us , we ’ll just move the deadline out and offer it again , ” said Rep. John Fleming ( R - La . ) .

Question: Who ’re something?

we

Question: Who is saying something?

we ’re

Question: What does someone say?

Question: Who comes somewhere?

n’t

Question: Where is someone come?

towards us

Question: Who ’ll something?

we

Question: Who moves something?

we ’ll

’ll

Question: What does someone move?

the deadline

Question: Who offers something?

we ’ll

’ll

Question: What is being offered?

it

Question: Who said something?

Rep. John Fleming

Rep. John Fleming ( R - La . )


Question: Who changed something?

n’t

Question: What did someone change?

our position


Question: Who ’ve something?

We

Question: Who changed something?

We ’ve

Question: What did someone change?

the timeline


Fleming rejected the idea that the proposal represents a concession from Republicans .

Question: Who rejected something?

Fleming

Question: What did someone reject?

Question: What represents something?

the proposal

Question: What does something represent?

a concession

a concession from Republicans


“ Not really , if we get a concession from the president , to sit down and negotiate .

Question: Who gets something?

we

Question: What does someone get?

a concession

Question: Who is something being gotten from?

the president

Question: Who sits somewhere?

we

Question: Where is someone sitting?

down

Question: Who negotiates?

we


If he does n’t agree to that , I wo n’t agree to the debt ceiling . ”

Question: Who agrees to something?

n’t

Question: What does someone agree to?

that

Question: Who agrees to something?

I

Question: What does someone agree to?

the debt ceiling


Meanwhile , several of the House ’s most conservative members withheld comment about the proposal .

Question: Who withheld something?

most conservative members

conservative members

Question: What did someone withhold?

comment

comment about the proposal


“ I ’m not very enthusiastic , ” Rep. Steve King ( R - Iowa ) said without elaborating .

Question: Who ’m something?

I

Question: What does someone ’m?

not very enthusiastic

Question: Who said something?

Rep. Steve King

Rep. Steve King ( R - Iowa )

Question: How did someone say something?

without elaborating

Question: Who wasn't elaborate?

Rep. Steve King

Rep. Steve King ( R - Iowa )


Rep. Steve Scalise ( R - La . ) , chairman of the Republican Study Committee , was noncommittal when asked about the plan and said his support depends on what happens in the meeting with the president Thursday .

Question: Who was asked?

Rep. Steve Scalise

Rep. Steve Scalise ( R - La . )

Question: What was someone asked about?

the plan

Question: Who said something?

Rep. Steve Scalise

Question: What did someone say?

Question: What depends on something?

his support

Question: What does something depend on?

Question: When does something depend on something?

Thursday

Question: Where does something happen?

in the meeting

in the meeting with the president

Question: When does something happen?

Thursday


“ Some of this involves a conversation with the president , ” Scalise said .

Question: What involves something?

Some of this

Question: What does something involve?

a conversation with the president

Question: Who said something?

” Scalise

Scalise


“ There ’s nothing unilateral that can be done .

Question: What is ’s?

nothing unilateral

Question: What does something ’s?

nothing unilateral that can be done


It ’s going to involve having the president finally put some things on the table of his own . ”

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

Question: What is going?

It

Question: Why is something going?

Question: What is something going to do?

Question: What involves something?

It

Question: What does something involve?

Question: Who put something?

the president

Question: What did someone put?

some things

Question: Where is something being put?

on the table

on the table of his own


Heritage Action for America , a conservative advocacy group influential with tea party Republicans , said Thursday that while it remains committed to fighting Obama ’s health - care law and opposes “ clean debt ceiling increases , ” it wants to give House GOP leaders “ the flexibility they need to refocus the debate on Obamacare . ”

Question: Who said something?

Heritage Action for America

Question: When did someone say something?

Thursday

Question: What did someone say?

Question: What remains something?

it

Question: What does something remain?

committed

committed to fighting Obama

Question: Who is fighting someone?

it

Question: Who is being fought?

Obama

Question: Who opposes something?

Obama

Question: What does someone oppose?

“ clean debt ceiling increases

Question: What wants to do something?

it

Question: What does something want?

Question: What gives someone something?

it

Question: Who is being given?

House GOP leaders

Question: What is someone give someone?

Question: Who needs to do something?

House GOP leaders

they

Question: What does someone need?

flexibility

to refocus the debate on Obamacare

Question: What does someone need to do?

refocus the debate on Obamacare

Question: Who is refocusing something?

House GOP leaders

Question: Who refocuses something?

they

Question: What is being refocused?

the debate

the debate on Obamacare


Therefore , the group said , it will not include votes in favor of the proposal in its rankings of lawmakers’ conservatism .

Question: Who said something?

the group

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who doesn't include something?

the group

Question: What doesn't include something?

it

Question: What doesn't something include?

votes

votes in favor of the proposal


The plan would meet Obama ’s demand for an increase in Treasury ’s borrowing authority without any legislative attachments .

Question: What would to do something?

The plan

Question: What did something will  do?

meet Obama

Question: What would meet someone?

The plan

Question: Who will something meet?

Obama


But it would set the stage for tough negotiations , possibly lasting until Thanksgiving , over bigger fiscal matters , since the tentative plan calls for only a six - week increase of the debt limit .

Question: What will something?

it

Question: What did something will?

set the stage for tough negotiations

Question: What would set something?

it

Question: What would something set?

the stage

the stage for tough negotiations

Question: What last?

tough negotiations

negotiations

Question: When is something lasting?

until Thanksgiving

Question: What calls for something?

the tentative plan

Question: What does something call for?

a six - week increase of the debt limit


Advisers cautioned that Boehner ’s often unruly caucus , which has repeatedly rejected leadership initiatives in the past , needs to sign off on the plan before it can advance .

Question: Who cautioned something?

Advisers

Question: What did someone caution?

that Boehner ’s often unruly caucus

Question: What has rejected something?

unruly caucus

Question: How has something rejected something?

repeatedly

Question: What has something rejected?

leadership initiatives

Question: When has something rejected something?

in the past

Question: Who needs to do something?

Boehner ’s often unruly caucus

Question: What needs to do something?

unruly caucus

Question: What does something need?

to sign off on the plan

Question: What does something need to do?

sign off on the plan

Question: When does something need to do something?

before it can advance

Question: What is sign up?

unruly caucus

Question: What is being signed?

the plan

Question: When does someone sign up something?

before it can advance

Question: What can advance?

the plan

it


Reacting to the GOP proposal , a White House official said : “ It is better for economic certainty for Congress to take the threat of default off the table for as long as possible , which is why we support the Senate Democrats’ efforts to raise the debt limit for a year with no extraneous political strings attached . ”

Question: What is something reacting to?

the GOP proposal

Question: Who is reacting to something?

a White House official

Question: Why did someone say something?

Reacting to the GOP proposal

Question: Who said something?

a White House official

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who takes something?

Congress

Question: What is being taken?

the threat of default

the threat of default off the table

Question: When is something being taken?

for as long as possible

Question: Who supports something?

we

Question: What does someone support?

the Senate Democrats’ efforts

Question: What is being raised?

the debt limit

Question: How long is something being raised?

for a year

Question: What was be attached?

no extraneous political strings

Question: What is be attached?

extraneous political strings


Obama also wants House Republicans to allow a vote on the “ clean ” government funding bill that has been passed by the Senate , the official said .

Question: Who wants something?

Obama

Question: What does someone want?

Question: Who allows something?

House Republicans

Question: What is being allowed?

a vote

Question: What does someone allow?

Question: What has been passed?

the “ clean ” government funding bill

Question: Who has something been passed by?

the Senate

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who said something?

the official


“ Once Republicans in Congress act to remove the threat of default and end this harmful government shutdown , the president will be willing to negotiate on a broader budget agreement , ” the official added .

Question: Who acts to do something?

Republicans

Republicans in Congress

Question: Why does someone act?

to remove the threat of default

Question: Who removes something?

Republicans

Republicans in Congress

Question: What is being removed?

the threat of default

Question: Who ends something?

Republicans

Republicans in Congress

Question: What is being ended?

this harmful government shutdown

Question: Who negotiate on something?

the president

Question: What is someone negotiate on?

a broader budget agreement

Question: Who added something?

the official


“ While we are willing to look at any proposal Congress puts forward to end these manufactured crises , we will not allow a faction of the Republicans in the House to hold the economy hostage to its extraneous and extreme political demands .

Question: Who is looking?

we

Question: What is someone look at?

any proposal

Question: What does someone put?

any proposal

proposal

Question: Who puts something?

Congress

Question: Where does someone put?

forward

Question: Why does someone put something?

to end these manufactured crises

Question: Who ends something?

Congress

Question: What is being ended?

these manufactured crises

Question: What is manufactured?

crises

Question: Who doesn't allow someone?

we

Question: What doesn't someone allow?

Question: Why doesn't someone allow something?

Question: Who held something?

Question: What is being held?

the economy


Congress needs to pass a clean debt - limit increase and a funding bill to reopen the government . ”

Question: Who needs to do something?

Congress

Question: What does someone need?

Question: Who passes something?

Congress

Question: What is being passed?

a clean debt - limit increase

Question: Why is something being passed?

to reopen the government

Question: Who reopens something?

Congress

Question: What is being reopened?

the government


Financial experts much prefer a longer - term extension of the debt ceiling , but even a brief extension would ease some of the turmoil that has been brewing on Wall Street .

Question: Who prefers something?

Financial experts

Question: What does someone prefer?

Question: What will something?

a brief extension

Question: What did something will?

ease some of the turmoil

Question: What would ease something?

a brief extension

Question: What would something ease?

some of the turmoil

Question: What wasn't brew?

the turmoil

Question: What wasn't be brewing?

turmoil

Question: Where has something be brewing?

on Wall Street

Question: What wasn't something be brewing on?

Wall Street


By the time markets closed Monday afternoon , the Dow had dropped 900 points in 14 trading days , losing almost 6 percent of its value .

Question: What was closed?

markets

Question: When was something closed?

Monday afternoon

Question: When did something drop something?

Question: What has dropped something?

the Dow

Question: What did something drop?

900 points

Question: When has something dropped something?

in 14 trading days

Question: When did someone lose something?

Monday afternoon

Question: What lost something?

the Dow

Question: What did something lose?

almost 6 percent of its value


Just three weeks ago , Boehner ’s leadership team presented a plan to lift the debt ceiling accompanied by a one - year delay of Obama ’s health - care law and a litany of other conservative domestic policy demands .

Question: When did someone present something?

Just three weeks ago

three weeks ago

Question: Who presented something?

Boehner ’s leadership team

Question: What did someone present?

a plan

a plan to lift the debt ceiling

Question: What was lifted?

the debt ceiling

Question: What was accompanied?

a plan to lift the debt ceiling

the debt ceiling

Question: What is something accompanied by?


With Washington in gridlock and a key deadline in the debt - limit debate just one week away , Lew told the Senate Finance Committee Thursday morning that he would do all he can to minimize the pain of breaching the $ 16.7 trillion debt limit .

Question: Who told something something?

Lew

Question: Who did someone tell something?

the Senate Finance Committee

Question: When did someone tell something?

Thursday morning

Question: What did someone tell someone?

Question: Who would something?

Lew

Question: Who will something?

he

Question: What does someone will?

Question: Who minimizes something?

Lew

he

Question: What is being minimized?

Question: Who breached something?

Lew

Question: What is being breached?

the $ 16.7 trillion debt limit


But Lew also told the senators that in an unprecedented situation in which he would be relying entirely on the erratic flow of incoming revenue , the economy would suffer and there would not even be certainty that the government could make all interest and principal payments .

Question: Who told someone something?

Lew

Question: Who did someone tell something?

the senators

Question: What did someone tell someone?

Question: Who will something?

Lew

he

Question: What does someone will?

Question: Who is be relying?

Lew

he

Question: How is someone be relying?

entirely

Question: What is someone rely on?

the erratic flow of incoming revenue

Question: What will something?

the economy

Question: What did something will  doing?

suffer

Question: What will suffer?

the economy

Question: What does something will?

not even be certainty

Question: Who can make something?

the government

Question: What can someone make?

all interest and principal payments


“ No credible economist or business leader thinks that defaulting is good for job creation or economic growth , ” Lew said .

Question: Who thinks something?

Question: What does someone think?

Question: Who defaulted something?

Lew


“ If Congress fails to meet its responsibility , it could be deeply damaging to the financial markets , the ongoing economic recovery , and the jobs and savings of millions of Americans . ”

Question: Who fails to do something?

Congress

Question: What does someone fail?

to meet its responsibility

Question: What does someone fail to do?

meet its responsibility

Question: Who doesn't meet something?

Congress

Question: What isn't someone meet?

its responsibility


Rep. Jim Jordan ( R - Ohio ) , a key conservative with ties to leadership and more junior tea party - backed colleagues , said Thursday morning that he and his colleagues “ potentially ” could support the new GOP debt - ceiling plan .

Question: Who did someone back?

colleagues

Question: Who said something?

Rep. Jim Jordan

Question: When did someone say something?

Thursday morning

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who can support something?

he and his colleagues “

Question: What can someone support?

the new GOP debt - ceiling plan


“ We think there needs to be some movement in dealing with the overall problem , ” he said .

Question: Who thinks something?

We

Question: What does someone think?

Question: What does something need?

Question: What is being dealt with?

the overall problem

Question: Who said something?

he


“ It ’d be nice to get some dollar - to - dollar cuts there . ”

Question: What ’d?

It

Question: What does something ’d?

be nice

Question: Why is something ’d?

Question: What is being gotten?

some dollar - to - dollar cuts

Question: Where is something being gotten?

there


Asked whether he could support a short - term increase without related cuts , Jordan said he expected that question would be the primary topic of conversation among House Republicans on Thursday .

Question: What was someone asked?

Question: Who was asked something?

Jordan

Question: Who can support something?

he

Question: What can someone support?

a short - term increase

Question: Who said something?

Jordan

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who expected something?

Jordan

he

Question: What did someone expect?

Question: What would something?

that question

Question: When did something will something?

on Thursday


Amid growing anxiety about a debt default , Republicans in the House and the Senate floated ideas Wednesday for raising the debt limit — if only for a short time — in hopes of forcing Obama to the negotiating table .

Question: What is growing?

anxiety

anxiety about a debt default

Question: Why did someone float something?

Question: Who floated something?

Republicans

Republicans in the House and the Senate

Question: What did someone float?

ideas

Question: When did someone float something?

Wednesday

Question: Who raised something?

Republicans

Republicans in the House and the Senate

Question: When was something raised?

Wednesday

Question: What was raised?

the debt limit

Question: Who forced someone?

Republicans in the House and the Senate

Question: Who is being forced?

Obama

Question: Where is someone being forced?

to the negotiating table

Question: What is someone being forced to?

the negotiating table


One of the most significant ideas was brewing in the House , Ryan briefed conservatives on a plan to raise the debt limit for six weeks , which would give party leaders time to negotiate a broad agreement to overhaul the tax code and trim federal health - care and retirement spending .

Question: What was brewing?

One of the most significant ideas

Question: Where was something brewing?

in the House

Question: What was something brewing in?

the House

Question: Who briefed someone?

Ryan

Question: Who did someone brief?

conservatives

Question: What did someone brief someone on?

Question: What is being raised?

the debt limit

Question: How long is something be raised?

for six weeks

Question: How long is someone raise something?

six weeks

Question: What did something will?

Question: Who will something give something?

party leaders

Question: What would something give someone?

Question: Who negotiates something?

party leaders

Question: What is being negotiated?

a broad agreement

Question: What is being overhauled?

the tax code

Question: What is being trimmed?


The plan , which Ryan sketched in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece Wednesday , was short on details .

Question: What was sketched?

The plan

Question: Who sketched something?

Ryan

Question: Where did someone sketch something?

in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece

Question: When did someone sketch something?

Wednesday


And it called for spending cuts of roughly $ 200 billion to cover the cost of raising the debt limit even in the near term — although senior GOP advisers said late Wednesday that they were also considering an increase with no strings attached .

Question: What called for something?

it

Question: What did something call for?

spending cuts

spending cuts of roughly $ 200 billion

Question: What is being covered?

the cost of raising the debt limit

Question: What is being raised?

the debt limit

Question: Who said something?

senior GOP advisers

Question: When did someone say something?

late Wednesday

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who was considering something?

senior GOP advisers

they

Question: When was someone considering something?

late Wednesday

Question: What was someone considering?

an increase

an increase with no strings attached

Question: How was something be attached?

no strings

Question: What was be attached?

strings


Lew ’s appearance is the first public confrontation between a senior administration official and Republicans since the fiscal showdown began last month .

Question: What began?

the fiscal showdown

fiscal showdown

Question: When did something begin?

last month


The meeting comes as some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are questioning whether the administration has been too alarmist about the threat of going past an Oct. 17 deadline to raise the debt ceiling .

Question: What comes?

The meeting

Question: When does something come?

Question: Why does something come?

Question: Who is questioning something?

some lawmakers on Capitol Hill

Question: What is someone questioning?

Question: Where is something going?

past an Oct. 17 deadline

Question: What is being raised?

the debt ceiling


Republicans have cited reports by credit - rating firms saying that the United States would not technically default unless it fails to make interest payments on its debt — which they regard as unlikely .

Question: Who has cited something?

Republicans

Question: What has someone cited?

reports

reports by credit - rating firms

Question: Who said something?

Republicans

reports by credit - rating firms

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who will something?

the United States

United States

Question: What does someone will?

not technically default

Question: Who fails to do something?

the United States

Question: What fails to do something?

it

Question: What does someone fail to do?

to make interest payments on its debt

make interest payments on its debt

Question: Who doesn't make something?

the United States

it

Question: What isn't make?

interest payments

interest payments on its debt

Question: Who regards something?

they

Question: How does someone regard something?

as unlikely

Question: What does someone regard something as?

unlikely


Echoing points made by Republican presidents and officials in prior administrations , Lew is tried to counter that argument by highlighting the broad risks of leaving the government with no borrowing authority .

Question: What was made?

Echoing points

Question: Who made something?

Republican presidents and officials

Lew

Question: When did someone myek something?

in prior administrations

Question: Who is tried to do something?

Lew

Question: Why is someone tried?

to counter that argument

Question: What is someone tried to do?

counter that argument

Question: How is someone tried to do something?

Question: Who counters something?

Lew

Question: What is being countered?

that argument

Question: How is something being countered?

Question: Who highlighted something?

Lew

Question: What is being highlighted?

Question: What is being left?

the government


“ Certain members of the House and Senate believe that it is possible to protect our economy by simply paying only the interest on our debts , while stopping or delaying payments on a number of our other legal commitments , ” Lew said .

Question: Who believes something?

Certain members of the House and Senate

Question: What does someone believe?

Question: What is being protected?

our economy

Question: How is something being protected?

Question: What is being paid?

only the interest on our debts

the interest on our debts

Question: What is being stopped?

payments

Question: What is being delayed?

payments

Question: Who said something?

Lew


“ The United States should not be put in a position of making such perilous choices for our economy and our citizens .

Question: Who isn't be put?

The United States

Question: How isn't someone be put?

Question: What isn't someone be put in?

Question: Who is make something?

The United States

Question: What is being made?

such perilous choices

perilous choices


There is no way of knowing the irrevocable damage such an approach would have on our economy and financial markets . ”

Question: What is be known?

the irrevocable damage

Question: What would something?

an approach


For example , officials say , Lew pointed out that the Treasury routinely refinances about $ 100 billion in debt every week , paying back principal and taking on new debt .

Question: Who says something?

officials

Question: What does someone say?

Question: Who pointed up something?

Lew

Question: What did someone point up?

Question: Who refinances something?

the Treasury

Question: How does someone refinance something?

routinely

Question: What does someone refinance?

about $ 100 billion in debt

Question: When does someone refinance something?

every week

Question: Who is paying something?

the Treasury

Question: What is being paid?

principal

Question: Who is taking on something?

the Treasury

Question: What is being taken on?

new debt


He noted that should investors back away from Treasury debt , it could make refinancing difficult and throw the country ’s financial markets into even greater chaos .

Question: Who noted something?

He

Question: What did someone note?

Question: Who backs?

investors

Question: What does someone back from?

Treasury debt

Question: What can make something?

it

Question: What can something make?

refinancing difficult

Question: What is refinance?

it

Question: How is something refinancing?

difficult

Question: Who throws something?

investors

Question: What is being thrown?

the country


Lew said the administration will face a series of difficult decisions even if Treasury can avoid what the credit - rating firms consider a default .

Question: Who said something?

Lew

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who would face something?

the administration

Question: What will someone face?

a series of difficult decisions

Question: Why will someone face something?

Question: Who can avoid something?

Treasury

Question: What can someone avoid?

Question: Who considers something?

the credit - rating firms

credit - rating firms

Question: What does someone consider something?

a default


In a scenario where federal spending will far exceed revenue , he said , the administration would have only imperfect options in deciding whom to pay .

Question: What will exceed something?

federal spending

Question: What is something exceed?

revenue

Question: Where did someone say something?

Question: Who said something?

he

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who will something?

the administration

Question: What does someone will?

Question: Who is deciding something?

the administration

Question: What is being decided?

whom to pay


Officials say Lew will try to push Republicans to decide whom they would n’t pay — Social Security recipients or veterans .

Question: Who says something?

Officials

Question: What does someone say?

Question: Who would try to do something?

Lew

Question: What will someone try?

Question: Who push someone?

Lew

Question: Who is someone push?

Republicans

Question: Why is someone push someone?

Question: Who decides someone?

Republicans

Question: What does someone decide?

Question: Who will something?

Republicans

they

Question: Who pay someone?

Republicans


“ We are relying on investors from all over the world to continue to hold U.S. bonds . . .

Question: Who is relying on something?

We

Question: Who is someone relying on?

investors

investors from all over the world

Question: Why is someone relying somewhere?

to continue to hold U.S. bonds

Question: Who continues to do something?

We

investors

investors from all over the world

Question: What does someone continue?

to hold U.S. bonds

Question: What does someone continue to do?

hold U.S. bonds

Question: Who holds something?

We

Question: What is being held?

U.S. bonds


Question: Who said something?

Lew


“ If U.S. bondholders decided that they wanted to be repaid rather than continuing to roll - over their Treasury investments , we could unexpectedly dissipate our entire cash balance . ”

Question: Who decided something?

U.S. bondholders

Question: What did someone decide?

that they wanted to be repaid

Question: Who wanted to do something?

U.S. bondholders

they

Question: What did someone want?

to be repaid

Question: Who is be repaid?

U.S. bondholders

they

Question: Who is be continuing to do something?

U.S. bondholders

Question: What is something continuing?

Question: What is something continuing to do?

roll - over their Treasury investments

Question: Who is rolling?

U.S. bondholders

Question: Who dissipates something?

U.S. bondholders

Question: Who can dissipate something?

we

Question: How can someone dissipate something?

unexpectedly

Question: What is being dissipated?

our entire cash balance


A Treasury official said Wednesday night that Obama would have to make the final decision in such a scenario .

Question: Who said something?

A Treasury official

Question: When did someone say something?

Wednesday night

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who will something?

Obama

Question: What does someone will?

Question: Who would make something?

Obama

Question: What would someone make?

the final decision

the final decision in such a scenario


Lew confronted a Senate Finance Committee stocked with Republicans who have been skeptical about the administration ’s claims that breaching the debt limit would be catastrophic .

Question: Who confronted something?

Lew

Question: Who did someone confront?

a Senate Finance Committee

Question: What was stocked with something?

a Senate Finance Committee

Question: Who was someone stocked with?

Republicans

Question: What is being breached?

the debt limit

Question: What will something?

breaching the debt limit

Question: What does something will?

be catastrophic


Among the committee ’s members is Sen. Patrick J. Toomey


( R - Pa . ) , who has championed the notion that the Treasury Department could avoid chaos in financial markets by continuing to make interest payments to investors .

Question: What has someone championed?

Question: Who can avoid something?

the Treasury Department

Treasury Department

Question: What can someone avoid?

chaos in financial markets

Question: How can someone avoid something?

Question: Who continues to do something?

the Treasury Department

Question: What is someone continuing to do?

to make interest payments to investors

make interest payments to investors

Question: Who makes something?

the Treasury Department

Question: What is being made?

interest payments

Question: Who is something being made to?

investors


The senior Republican on the panel , Sen. Orrin G. Hatch ( Utah ) , has also expressed doubts about the risk of a debt - ceiling breach .

Question: Who has expressed something?

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch ( Utah )

Question: What has someone expressed?

doubts


But on Wednesday , Hatch acknowledged that blowing the Oct. 17 deadline would “ scare the hell out of people . ”

Question: When did someone acknowledge something?

on Wednesday

Wednesday

Question: Who acknowledged something?

Hatch

Question: What did someone acknowledge?

Question: When was someone blowing something?

on Wednesday

Question: Who was blowing something?

Hatch

Question: What was blowed?

the Oct. 17 deadline

Question: What would something?

blowing the Oct. 17 deadline

Question: What did something will?

“ scare the hell out of people

Question: Who scare someone?

Hatch

Question: What would scare someone?

blowing the Oct. 17 deadline

Question: Who is be scared?

the hell

Question: Who is scare?

the hell out of people

Question: Who is someone scare someone on?

people


And while Treasury might be able to pay interest on the debt , Hatch said , “ the real question is whether it ’s going to tank the stock market . ”

Question: Who pay something?

Treasury

Question: What is someone pay?

interest

interest on the debt

Question: Who said something?

Hatch

Question: What ’s something?

it

Question: What does something ’s?

going to tank the stock market

Question: What is going?

it

Question: How is something going?

to tank the stock market

Question: What is something going to do?

tank the stock market

Question: What is being tanked?

the stock market


Obama , when he meets Thursday with House GOP leaders , is planning to emphasize his refusal to “ pay ransom ” to avoid default and reopen the government .

Question: Who meets?

Obama

he

Question: When does someone meet?

Thursday

Question: Who does someone meet with?

House GOP leaders

Question: Who is planning to do something?

Obama

Question: What is someone planning to do?

Question: Who emphasizes something?

Obama

Question: What is being emphasized?

Question: Who pay something?

Obama

Question: What is someone pay?

ransom

Question: Why is someone paying something?

Question: Who avoids something?

Obama

Question: What is being avoided?

default

Question: Who reopens something?

Obama

Question: What is being reopened?

the government


Ryan , nonetheless , held out hope that the “ meeting at the White House will allow us to work together and find common ground . ”

Question: Who held up something?

Ryan

Question: What did someone hould up?

hope

Question: What would allow something?

the “ meeting at the White House

Question: Who will something allow?

us

Question: What will something allow?

Question: What will someone allow someone to do?

to work together and find common ground

Question: What would something allow someone to do?

work together and find common ground

Question: Who works?

us

Question: How does someone work?

together

Question: Who finds something?

us

Question: What is being found?

common ground


Thursday ’s meeting is the second in a series the White House announced Wednesday aimed at breaking the impasse , reopening the government and raising the $ 16.7 trillion debt limit .

Question: What did someone announce?

a series

aimed at breaking the impasse

Question: Who announced something?

the White House

Question: When did someone announce something?

Wednesday

Question: What was aimed?

a series

Question: What was something aimed at?

breaking the impasse

Question: Who broke something?

the White House

Question: What was broken?

the impasse

Question: What was reopened?

the government

Question: What is being raised?

the $ 16.7 trillion debt limit


Obama met first with House Democrats late Wednesday and plans to meet with each party in the Senate in the coming days , starting with a meeting with the Senate Democratic caucus Thursday .

Question: Who met?

Obama

Question: How did someone meet?

first

Question: Who did someone meet with?

House Democrats

Question: When did someone meet?

late Wednesday

Question: Who plans to do something?

Obama

Question: What does someone plan?

to meet with each party in the Senate

Question: What does someone plan to do?

meet with each party in the Senate

Question: When does someone plan to do something?

in the coming days

Question: Who met?

Obama

Question: Who is someone meet with?

each party

each party in the Senate

Question: Where is someone meet?

in the Senate

Question: When does someone meet with something?

in the coming days

Question: What is coming?

days

Question: Who started with something?

Obama

Question: What is something starting with?

Question: When did someone start with something?

Thursday


Obama invited the entire 233-member GOP House conference to join him at the White House , but Republicans decided to send only an 18-member group comprising top leaders and key committee chairmen , including Ryan , Appropriations Chairman Harold Rogers ( Ky. ) and Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp ( Mich. ) .

Question: Who invited someone something?

Obama

Question: What did someone invite?

Question: Why did someone invite someone?

to join him at the White House

Question: Who joined someone?

Obama

Question: Who did someone join?

him

Question: Where did someone join someone?

at the White House

Question: Who decided to do something?

Republicans

Question: What did someone decide?

to send only an 18-member group

Question: What did someone decide to do?

send only an 18-member group

Question: Who sent someone?

Republicans

Question: What did someone send?

only an 18-member group

an 18-member group

Question: What comprised someone?

an 18-member group

Question: Who is comprised?

top leaders and key committee chairmen

Question: What does something include?


“ Nine days into a government shutdown and a week away from breaching the debt ceiling , a meeting is only worthwhile if it is focused on finding a solution , ” Brendan Buck , a spokesman for Boehner , said in a statement .

Question: What is be breached?

the debt ceiling

Question: What is focused on something?

a meeting

it

Question: What is something focused on?

finding a solution

Question: What is being found?

a solution

Question: Who said something?

Brendan Buck

a spokesman for Boehner

Question: Where did someone say something?

in a statement


“ That ’s why the House Republican Conference will instead be represented by a smaller group of negotiators . ”

Question: What ’s something?

That

Question: What does something ’s?

Question: What is be represented?

the House Republican Conference

House Republican Conference

Question: Who is represent someone?

a smaller group of negotiators


The White House said Obama is “ disappointed ” by Boehner ’s decision to limit Republican attendance and emphasized that Obama will not be negotiating .

Question: Who said something?

The White House

Question: What did someone say?

Obama is “ disappointed

Question: Who limited something?

Obama

Question: What is being limited?

Republican attendance

Question: Who emphasized something?

The White House

Obama

Question: What did someone emphasize?

that Obama will not be negotiating

Question: Who isn't negotiate?

Obama


“ The president thought it was important to talk directly with the members who forced this economic crisis on the country about how the shutdown and a failure to pay the country ’s bills could devastate the economy , ” White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement .

Question: Who thought something?

The president

Question: What did someone thinke?

Question: Who talked?

The president

Question: How was someone talking?

directly

Question: Who did someone talk with?

the members

Question: Who forced something?

the members

members

Question: What did someone force?

this economic crisis

Question: What is being paid?

the country

Question: What can devastate something?

Question: What can something devastate?

the economy

Question: Who said something?

White House press secretary Jay Carney

Jay Carney

Question: Where did someone say something?

in a statement


Obama “ will talk to anyone anytime . . .

Question: Who will talk?

Obama

Question: Who will someone talk to?

anyone

Question: When will someone talk?

anytime


but will not pay the Republicans ransom for doing their job , ” Carney said .

Question: Who doesn't be paid?

the Republicans

Question: What doesn't something pay?

the Republicans ransom

Question: What doesn't someone pay?

ransom

Question: Why doesn't someone pay something?

for doing their job

Question: Who said something?

Carney


“ If the Republicans want to have a real discussion , they should open the government and take the threat of default off the table . ”

Question: Who wants to do something?

the Republicans

Republicans

Question: What does someone want?

to have a real discussion

Question: What does someone want to do?

have a real discussion

Question: Who opens something?

the Republicans

Question: Who open something?

they

Question: What is being opened?

the government

Question: Who takes something?

the Republicans

they

Question: What is being taken?

the threat of default

the threat of default off the table


Republicans on Capitol Hill , meanwhile , circulated a memo from one of the nation ’s leading credit - rating agencies that seemed to play down the threat of default .

Question: Who circulated something?

Republicans

Republicans on Capitol Hill

Question: What did someone circulate?

a memo

Question: What is being led?

credit - rating agencies

Question: What seemed to do something?

leading credit - rating agencies

credit - rating agencies

Question: What did something seem to do?

to play down the threat of default

play down the threat of default

Question: Who played up something?

leading credit - rating agencies

Question: What did someone play up?

the threat of default


In the memo , Moody ’s Investors Service said the Treasury Department is likely to continue paying interest on the government ’s debt even if Congress refuses to lift the limit on borrowing , preserving the nation ’s sterling AAA credit rating .

Question: Where did someone say something?

In the memo

Question: Who said something?

Moody ’s Investors Service

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who continues something?

the Treasury Department

Treasury Department

Question: What does someone continue  doing?

Question: Who is paying something?

the Treasury Department

Treasury Department

Question: What is being paid?

interest

Question: Who refuses to do something?

Congress

Question: What does someone refuse?

to lift the limit on borrowing

Question: What does someone refuse to do?

lift the limit on borrowing

Question: Who doesn't lift something?

Congress

Question: What isn't someone lift?

the limit on borrowing

Question: Who preserves something?

the Treasury Department

Question: What is being preserved?

the nation


“ We believe the government would continue to pay interest and principal on its debt even in the event that the debt limit is not raised , leaving its creditworthiness intact , ” said the Oct. 7 memo .

Question: Who believes something?

We

Question: What does someone believe?

Question: Who will to do something?

the government

Question: What does someone will  do?

Question: Who will continue to do something?

the government

Question: What will someone continue?

Question: What will someone continue to do?

pay interest and principal on its debt

Question: When will someone continue to do something?

Question: Who pay something?

the government

Question: What is someone pay?

interest and principal

Question: What isn't be raised?

the debt limit

Question: Who is leaving something?

the government

Question: What is being left?

its creditworthiness

Question: How is something being left?

intact

Question: What did someone say?

the Oct. 7 memo


“ The debt limit restricts government expenditures to the amount of its incoming revenues ; it does not prohibit the government from servicing its debt .

Question: What restricts something?

The debt limit

Question: What does something restrict?

government expenditures

Question: What does something restrict something to?

the amount of its incoming revenues

Question: What doesn't prohibit something?

The debt limit

it

Question: What doesn't something prohibit?

the government

the government from servicing its debt

Question: What doesn't something be prohibited from?

servicing its debt

Question: Who is service something?

the government

Question: What is be serviced?

its debt


There is no direct connection between the debt limit ( actually the exhaustion of the Treasury ’s extraordinary measures to raise funds ) and a default . ”

Question: What is being raised?

funds


The memo offered a starkly different view of the consequences of breaching the debt limit than is held by the White House , many policymakers and other financial analysts .

Question: What offered something?

The memo

Question: What did something offer?

Question: What is being breached?

the debt limit

Question: What is held?

Question: Who held something?

the White House


Over the weekend , economists at Goldman Sachs said the economy would take a devastating hit even if Treasury kept making payments on the debt , because the pullback in federal spending would amount to roughly $ 175 billion , or 4.2 percentage points of gross domestic product .

Question: When did someone say something?

Over the weekend

Question: Who said something?

economists

economists at Goldman Sachs

Question: What did someone say?

Question: What would to do something?

the economy

Question: What did something will?

take a devastating hit

Question: What would take something?

the economy

Question: What would something take?

a devastating hit

Question: Who kept something?

Treasury

Question: What did someone keep?

making payments on the debt

Question: Why did someone keep something?

Question: Who was make something?

Treasury

Question: What is someone be making?

payments

payments on the debt

Question: What will something?

the pullback in federal spending

Question: What did something will?

amount to roughly $ 175 billion

Question: What will amount to something?

the pullback in federal spending

Question: What will something amount to?

roughly $ 175 billion


Mohamed El - Erian , the chief executive of PIMCO , the world ’s largest bond company , agreed that the administration could take steps to contain the worst damage .

Question: Who agreed something?

Mohamed El - Erian

Question: What did someone agree?

Question: Who can take something?

the administration

Question: What can someone take?

steps

steps to contain the worst damage

Question: Why can someone take something?

to contain the worst damage

Question: Who contains something?

the administration

Question: What is being contained?

the worst damage


But , he said , there would still be severe consequences .

Question: Who said something?

he

Question: What did someone say?

Question: What would something will?

severe consequences


“ It would avoid a series of major and cascading disruptions to the functioning of a financial market that is at the heart of the core of the global financial system , ” he said .

Question: What will something?

It

Question: What did something will?

Question: What will avoid something?

It

Question: What would something avoid?

Question: Who said something?

he


“ Having said that , equities and other risk assets would still likely sell off hard . ”

Question: What did someone say?

that

Question: What will something?

equities and other risk assets

Question: What will sell up?

equities and other risk assets

Question: How will something sell up?

hard


Rep. Chris Van Hollen ( D - Md . ) noted that Moody ’s analysis is geared toward the well - being of its own investors , not average Americans .

Question: Who noted something?

Rep. Chris Van Hollen

Rep. Chris Van Hollen ( D - Md . )

Question: What did someone note?

Question: What is geared?

Moody ’s analysis

Question: What is something geared on?

the well - being of its own investors


“ When they say their clients will be okay , they ’re not talking about people on Society Security , Medicare or our troops in the field .

Question: Who says something?

they

Question: What does someone say?

their clients will be okay

Question: Who ’re something?

they

Question: What does someone ’re?

Question: Who doesn't talke?

’re

Question: Who isn't someone talke for?

people

people on Society Security


Moody ’s does n’t give a damn about any of those people . ”

Question: What gives something?

n’t

Question: What does something give?

a damn

Question: What does someone give something about?

any of those people


William Branigin , Rosalind S. Helderman and Scott Wilson contributed to this report .

Question: Who contributed to something?

William Branigin

Scott Wilson

Question: What did someone contribute to?

this report


Still , the House Republican offer represented a potentially significant breakthrough .

Question: What represented something?

the House Republican offer

Question: What did something represent?

a potentially significant breakthrough


Even if Democrats found fault with the Republicans’ immediate proposal — for example , it would prevent the Treasury secretary from engaging in accounting maneuvers to stave off potential default — it was seen as an opening gambit in the legislative dance toward some resolution before the government is expected to breach its debt limit on Thursday .

Question: Who founded something?

Democrats

Question: What did someone found?

fault

Question: What will something?

it

Question: What did something will  do?

Question: What would prevent someone?

it

Question: Who would something prevent?

the Treasury secretary

Question: Who is engage?

the Treasury secretary

Treasury secretary

Question: What isn't someone engage in?

accounting maneuvers

Question: Why isn't someone engage somewhere?

to stave off potential default

Question: Who is accounting something?

the Treasury secretary

Question: What is being accounted?

maneuvers

Question: Why is something being accounted?

to stave off potential default

Question: Who stove up something?

the Treasury secretary

Question: What is being stove?

potential default

Question: What was seen?

it

Question: How was something seen?

as an opening gambit

Question: What was something seen as?

an opening gambit

Question: When was something seen?

Question: Who is expected to do something?

the government

Question: What is someone expected to do?

to breach its debt limit

breach its debt limit

Question: When is someone expected to do something?

on Thursday

Thursday

Question: Who is breach something?

the government

Question: What is someone breach?

its debt limit

Question: When is someone breach something?

on Thursday

Thursday


Even before the meeting , the White House and its Democratic allies in Congress were all but declaring victory at the evidence that Republicans — suffering the most in polls , and pressured by business allies and donors not to provoke a government default — were seeking a way out of the impasse .

Question: When was someone declaring something?

Even before the meeting

before the meeting

Question: Who was declaring something?

Question: What was someone declaring?

victory

Question: Who is suffering something?

Republicans

Question: What was someone suffering?

the most in polls

Question: Who was pressured?

Republicans

Question: Who was someone pressured by?

business allies and donors

Question: Why was someone pressured?

not to provoke a government default

Question: Who didn't provoke something?

business allies and donors

Question: What wasn't someone provoke?

a government default

Question: What was someone seeking?

a way out of the impasse


After some fretful weeks , the Democrats believe , Mr. Obama was seeing some payoff for his big gamble this year .

Question: When does someone believe something?

After some fretful weeks

Question: Who believes something?

the Democrats

Question: What does someone believe?

Question: When was someone seeing something?

After some fretful weeks

this year

Question: Who was seeing something?

Mr. Obama

Question: What was someone seeing?

some payoff

some payoff for his big gamble


Burned by his experience with House Republicans in mid-2011 , when brinkmanship over the debt limit hobbled the already weak economy , Mr. Obama began his second term vowing never again to negotiate over raising the ceiling or to give any concessions to Republicans for performing an act that is their constitutional responsibility .

Question: What was something burned by?

his experience

his experience with House Republicans

Question: When was someone burned?

in mid-2011

Question: What hobbled something?

brinkmanship over the debt limit

Question: What did something hobble?

the already weak economy

Question: Who began something?

Mr. Obama

Question: What did someone begin?

his second term

Question: Who vowed something?

Mr. Obama

Question: What vowed something?

his second term

Question: What did someone vow?

Question: Who didn't negotiate?

Mr. Obama

Question: What wasn't someone negotiate at?

raising the ceiling

Question: Who raise something?

Mr. Obama

Question: What is be raised?

the ceiling

Question: Who give something?

Mr. Obama

Question: What is be given?

any concessions

Question: Who is something being given to?

Republicans

Question: Why is something being given?

Question: Who was performing something?

Republicans

Question: What is being performed?

an act


“ The good news is that Republicans have accepted the principle that they ’re not going to attach conditions to the debt ceiling , ” said Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland , the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee .

Question: Who has accepted something?

Republicans

Question: What has someone accepted?

the principle

Question: Who ’re something?

Republicans

they

Question: What did someone ’re?

Question: Who isn't go?

they ’re

’re

Question: What isn't someone go to do?

attach conditions to the debt ceiling

Question: Who doesn't attach something?

they ’re

’re

Question: What isn't someone attach?

conditions

conditions to the debt ceiling

Question: Who said something?


“ The bad news is they ’ve only extended the debt ceiling for six weeks . ”

Question: Who ’ve something?

they

Question: How long does someone ’ve something?

for six weeks

Question: Who extended something?

they ’ve

Question: What extended something?

’ve

Question: What did someone extend?

the debt ceiling

Question: How long did someone extend something?

for six weeks

six weeks


Photo For House Republicans , the maneuvers represented a near - reversal of their original strategy in September of going to the mat over the debt limit but not shutting down the government .

Question: What represented something?

the maneuvers

Question: What did something represent?

Question: When did something represent something?

in September

Question: When was someone going somewhere?

in September

September

Question: Where was someone going?

to the mat

Question: What was someone going to?

the mat

Question: How was something going?

over the debt limit

Question: What isn't be shut up?

the government


Now , under pressure from falling poll numbers and angry business supporters , they are seeking a compromise on the debt ceiling .

Question: What is falling?

poll numbers

Question: Why is someone seeking something?

Question: Who is seeking something?

they

Question: What is someone seeking?

a compromise on the debt ceiling


Yet for now , they are still refusing to finance and reopen the government without some concessions .

Question: Who is refusing to do something?

they

Question: What is someone refusing to do?

to finance and reopen the government

Question: Who doesn't finance?

they

Question: What isn't be financed?

the government

Question: Who is reopen someone?

they

Question: What is being reopened?

the government

Question: How is something being reopened?

without some concessions


Mr. Boehner and his colleagues left the White House without speaking to waiting reporters , and quickly gathered in his Capitol suite for further discussion .

Question: Who left something?

Mr. Boehner and his colleagues

Question: What did someone leave?

the White House

Question: How did someone leave somewhere?

without speaking to waiting reporters

Question: Who didn't speak?

Mr. Boehner and his colleagues

Question: Who didn't someone speak to?

waiting reporters

Question: Who was waiting?

reporters

Question: Who gathered somewhere?

Mr. Boehner and his colleagues

Question: How did someone gather somewhere?

quickly

Question: Where did someone gather?

in his Capitol suite

Question: Why did someone gather somewhere?

for further discussion


Their debt limit proposal could come to a vote as soon as Friday .

Question: What can come?

Their debt limit proposal

Question: Where might something come?

to a vote

Question: What might something come to?

a vote

Question: When can something come to something?

as soon as Friday


Before the White House meeting , administration and Congressional Democrats said they were skeptical that House Republican leaders could pass the proposal .

Question: When did someone say something?

Before the White House meeting

Question: Who said something?

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who can pass something?

House Republican leaders

Question: What can someone pass?

the proposal


A large faction of Tea Party conservatives campaigned on promises never to vote to increase the nation ’s debt limit .

Question: Who campaigned on something?

Question: What did someone campaign on?

promises

Question: Who didn't vote?

Tea Party conservatives

Question: Why didn't someone vote?

to increase the nation ’s debt limit

Question: What isn't someone vote to do?

increase the nation ’s debt limit

Question: What is be increased?

the nation

the nation ’s debt limit


And Congressional Democrats vowed to oppose any proposal that did not also fully finance a government now shuttered since the fiscal year began Oct. 1 .

Question: Who vowed to do something?

Congressional Democrats

Question: What did someone vow?

to oppose any proposal

Question: What did someone vow to do?

oppose any proposal

Question: Who opposed something?

Congressional Democrats

Question: What did someone oppose?

any proposal

Question: What didn't finance something?

any proposal

Question: How didn't something be financed?

fully

Question: What wasn't something finance?

a government

Question: What began?

the fiscal year

fiscal year

Question: When did something begin?

Oct. 1


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Newsletter

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Up

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the main story

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you 're not a robot

you 're not a robot by clicking the box

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by clicking the box

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you

Question: What is being clicked?

the box


You must select a newsletter to subscribe to .

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You

Question: What is being selected?

a newsletter

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to subscribe to

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a newsletter

newsletter


Question: How is something being signed?

Up


You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times 's products and services .

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You

Question: What does someone agree to do?

Question: Who receives something?

You

Question: What does someone receive?

occasional updates and special offers


Question: Who is being thanked?

you

Question: Why is someone being thanked?

for subscribing

Question: What is someone thanked for?

subscribing

Question: Who was subscribing?

you


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An error


Question: When is someone trying?

again

later


Question: What is being viewed?

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“ We ’ll see what they ’re able to pass , ” said Mr. Obama ’s press secretary , Jay Carney .

Question: Who ’ll something?

We

Question: Who sees something?

We ’ll

Question: What does someone see?

what they ’re able to pass

Question: Who ’re something?

they

Question: What does someone ’re?

able to pass

Question: Who passes?

they ’re

’re

Question: Who did someone say?


Senate Democrats had their own White House meeting with Mr. Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. three hours before the House Republicans arrived , and the majority leader , Senator Harry Reid of Nevada , declined to embrace the Republicans’ debt limit proposal until he saw it .

Question: Who arrived?

the House Republicans

House Republicans

Question: Who declined to do something?

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada

Question: What did someone decline?

Question: What did someone decline to do?

Question: When did someone decline to do something?

until he saw it

Question: Who didn't embrace something?

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada

Question: What wasn't someone embrace?

the Republicans’ debt limit proposal

Question: When didn't someone embrace something?

until he saw it

Question: Who saw something?

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada

he

Question: What did someone see?

it


He told reporters that Democrats would not negotiate on further deficit reductions until House Republicans agreed to the measure passed by the Senate to finance and open the government through mid - November .

Question: Who told something something?

He

Question: Who did someone tell something?

reporters

Question: What did someone tell someone?

Question: Who will something?

Democrats

Question: What does someone will?

Question: Who doesn't negotiate on something?

Democrats

Question: What doesn't someone negotiate on?

further deficit reductions

Question: When doesn't someone negotiate on something?

Question: Who agreed to something?

House Republicans

Question: What did someone agree to?

the measure

the measure passed by the Senate

Question: What was passed?

the measure

Question: Who passed something?

the Senate

Question: Why was something passed?

Question: What is be financed?

the measure

Question: What is being financed?

the government

Question: When did someone finance something?

through mid - November

Question: What is being opened?

the government

Question: When did someone open something?

through mid - November

mid - November


Advertisement Continue reading the main story “ Not going to happen , ” Mr. Reid said .

Question: What is being read?

the main story

Question: What isn't something go to do?

to happen

happen

Question: Who happened something?

Mr. Reid


Question: What is being opened?

the government

Question: Who added something?

he


“ There is so much pain and suffering out there .

Question: Where is something suffering?

out there


It is really tear - jerking , to say the least . ”

Question: What is being jerked?

tear

Question: What is being said?

the least


Separately , members of the Senate ’s Republican minority , who are to meet with Mr. Obama on Friday , worked on a proposal for full - year government funding — at levels reflecting the across - the - board spending cuts known as sequestration , but giving agencies flexibility to shift money around .

Question: Who meets with someone?

Question: Who meets?

Republican minority

Question: Who does someone meet with?

Mr. Obama

Question: When does someone meet?

on Friday

Friday

Question: Who worked on something?

Question: What did someone work on?

a proposal

Question: What reflects something?

levels

Question: What is being reflected?

the across - the - board spending cuts

Question: What is known as something?

spending cuts

Question: What is something known as?

sequestration

Question: Who gives something?

Question: Who is being given something?

agencies

Question: What is someone given?

flexibility

flexibility to shift money around

Question: Who shifts something?

agencies

Question: What is being shifted?

money

Question: Where is something being shifted?

around


They are considering adding it to any short - term debt limit increase that the House might pass and send to the Senate .

Question: Who is considering something?

They

Question: What is someone considering?

Question: Who is adding something?

They

Question: What is being added?

it

Question: What is someone adding something to?

any short - term debt limit increase

Question: What will someone pass?

any short - term debt limit increase

short - term debt limit increase

Question: What will be passed?

debt limit increase

Question: What will pass?

the House

Question: Who sends somewhere?

the House

Question: Where does someone send?

to the Senate

Question: What does someone send to?

the Senate


Mr. Ryan said before the White House meeting that Republicans were now willing to formally negotiate with Senate Democrats over a long - term , comprehensive budget framework .

Question: Who said something?

Mr. Ryan

Question: When did someone say something?

before the White House meeting

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who negotiate?

Republicans

Question: How did someone negotiate?

formally

Question: Who did someone negotiate with?

Senate Democrats


The Republicans have resisted such a move since April , fearing that it would require compromises , like raising additional tax revenues , that would enrage the party ’s conservative base heading into the 2014 midterm elections .

Question: Who has resisted something?

The Republicans

Question: What has someone resisted?

such a move

a move

Question: When has someone resisted something?

since April

Question: Who feared something?

The Republicans

Question: What did someone fear?

that it would require compromises

Question: Who would something?

The Republicans

Question: What will something?

it

Question: What did something will?

require compromises

Question: Who would require something?

The Republicans

Question: What would require something?

it

Question: What would something require?

compromises

Question: What is being raised?

additional tax revenues

Question: What does something will  do?

enrage

enrage the party

enrage the party ’s conservative base

Question: Who will something enrage?

the party

the party ’s conservative base

Question: When will something enrage someone?

heading into the 2014 midterm elections

Question: What is heading into something?

conservative base

Question: Where is something heading?

into the 2014 midterm elections

Question: What is something heading into?

the 2014 midterm elections


Many House Republicans , leaving a closed - door party caucus earlier Thursday that at times grew contentious , said they would support their leadership ’s short - term debt limit proposal .

Question: Who left something?

Many House Republicans

House Republicans

Question: What did someone leave?

a closed - door party caucus

Question: When did someone leave something?

earlier Thursday

Question: Who grew something?

Many House Republicans

House Republicans

Question: When did something grow something?

at times

Question: What did something grow?

contentious

Question: Who said something?

Many House Republicans

House Republicans

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who would to do something?

Many House Republicans

House Republicans

Question: Who would something?

they

Question: What did someone will  do?

support their leadership

Question: Who would support something?

Many House Republicans

House Republicans

they

Question: What would someone support?

their leadership


But they said they would do so only if Mr. Obama agreed to negotiate a broader deficit reduction deal , with big savings from entitlement programs .

Question: Who said something?

they

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who will something?

they

they

Question: What does someone will?

do so

so

Question: When does someone will something?

Question: Who agreed to do something?

Mr. Obama

Question: What did someone agree to do?

Question: Who negotiated something?

Mr. Obama

Question: What did someone negotiate?

a broader deficit reduction deal


The president has insisted he will not agree to significant reductions in projected Medicare and Medicaid spending — even his own tentative proposals — unless Republicans agree to raise revenues by curbing tax breaks for corporations and wealthy individuals .

Question: Who has insisted something?

The president

Question: What has someone insisted?

Question: Who doesn't agree to something?

The president

he

Question: What doesn't someone agree to?

Question: What is projected?

Medicare and Medicaid spending

Question: Who agrees to do something?

Republicans

Question: What does someone agree to do?

to raise revenues

raise revenues

Question: How does someone agree to do something?

Question: Who raise something?

Republicans

Question: What is being raised?

revenues

Question: How is something being raised?

Question: Who is curbing something?

Republicans

Question: What is being curbed?

tax breaks

Question: Who is something being curbed for?

corporations and wealthy individuals


And Mr. Boehner in recent days reaffirmed the party ’s anti - tax stance , which suggests that future talks could founder .

Question: Who reaffirmed something?

Mr. Boehner

Question: When did someone reaffirm something?

in recent days

Question: What did someone reaffirm?

the party ’s anti - tax stance

Question: What suggests something?

the party ’s anti - tax stance

Question: What does something suggest?

that future talks could founder

Question: What can founder?

future talks


Economists across a broad spectrum agree that breaching the debt limit would damage the economy .

Question: Who agrees something?

Economists

Economists across a broad spectrum

Question: What does someone agree?

Question: What is being breached?

the debt limit

Question: What will something?

breaching the debt limit

Question: What is something will?

damage the economy

Question: What would damage something?

breaching the debt limit

Question: What would something damage?

the economy


The new Republican proposal could temporarily remove that threat .

Question: What can remove something?

The new Republican proposal

Question: How might something remove something?

temporarily

Question: What might something remove?

that threat


More than 670,000 copies of the Pearls’ self - published book are in circulation , and it is especially popular among Christian home - schoolers , who praise it in their magazines and on their Web sites .

Question: What is published?

book

Question: What does someone praise?

it

Question: Who praises something?

Christian home - schoolers

Question: Where does someone praise something?


The Pearls provide instructions on using a switch from as early as six months to discourage misbehavior and describe how to make use of implements for hitting on the arms , legs or back , including a quarter - inch flexible plumbing line that , Mr. Pearl notes , “ can be rolled up and carried in your pocket . ”

Question: What provides something?

The Pearls

Question: What does something provide?

instructions

Question: Why does something provide something?

to discourage misbehavior

Question: What uses something?

The Pearls

Question: What is being used?

a switch

Question: When is something being used?

from as early as six months

Question: Why is something being used?

to discourage misbehavior

Question: What discourages something?

The Pearls

Question: What is being discouraged?

misbehavior

Question: What describes something?

The Pearls

Question: What is being described?

Question: What is being made?

use of implements

Question: What is hitting?

implements

Question: Where is something hitting?

on the arms , legs or back

Question: What is something hitting on?

the arms , legs or back

Question: What is included?

a quarter - inch flexible plumbing

a quarter - inch flexible plumbing line

Question: Who notes something?

Mr. Pearl

Question: What does someone note?

Question: What can be rolled?

Question: How can something be rolled?

up

Question: What can be carried?

Question: Where is something carried?

in your pocket


Advertisement Continue reading the main story The furor in part reflects societal disagreements over corporal punishment , which conservative Christians say is called for in the Bible and which many Americans consider reasonable up to a point , even as many parents and pediatricians reject it .

Question: What is being read?

the main story

Question: What reflects something?

The furor

Question: What does something reflect?

Question: Who says something?

conservative Christians

Question: What is called?

Question: Who is called?

conservative Christians

Question: Where is something called?

in the Bible

Question: Who considers something?

many Americans

Americans

Question: What does someone consider?

reasonable

reasonable up to a point

Question: Who rejects something?

many parents and pediatricians

parents and pediatricians

Question: What does someone reject?

it


The issue flared recently when a video was posted online of a Texas judge whipping his daughter .

Question: What flared?

The issue

Question: When did something flare?

recently

Question: What was posted?

a video

Question: Where was something posted?

online

Question: Who was whipping someone?

a Texas judge

Texas judge

Question: Who was whipped?

his daughter


Mr. Pearl , 66 , and Mrs. Pearl , 60 , say that blaming their book for extreme abuse by a few unstable parents is preposterous and that they explicitly counsel against acting in anger or causing a bruise .

Question: Who says something?

Mr. Pearl

Mr. Pearl , 66 , and Mrs. Pearl

Question: What does someone say?

Question: Who is blaming something?

Mr. Pearl

Question: What is being blamed?

their book

Question: What is someone blaming something for?

extreme abuse

Question: Who counsels with something?

Mr. Pearl

they

Question: How does someone counsel with something?

explicitly

Question: How does someone counsel?

Question: What does someone counsel with?

acting in anger or causing a bruise

Question: How is someone be acting?

in anger

Question: What is someone act in?

anger

Question: What is being caused?

a bruise


They say that their methods , properly used , yield peace and happy teenagers .

Question: Who says something?

They

Question: What does someone say?

Question: What is used?

their methods

methods

Question: How is something used?

properly

Question: What yields something?

their methods

Question: What does something yield?

peace and happy teenagers


“ If you find a 12-step book in an alcoholic ’s house , you would n’t blame the book , ” Mr. Pearl said in an interview .

Question: Who finds something?

you

Question: What does someone find?

a 12-step book

Question: Where does someone find something?

in an alcoholic ’s house

Question: Who would something?

you

Question: Who would blame something?

you

Question: What would someone blame?

the book

Question: Who said something?

Mr. Pearl

Question: Where did someone say something?

in an interview


But he acknowledged that the methods are not right for out - of - control or severely overburdened parents .

Question: Who acknowledged something?

he

Question: What did someone acknowledge?


In the latest case , Larry and Carri Williams of Sedro - Woolley , Wash. , were home - schooling their six children when they adopted a girl and a boy , ages 11 and 7 , from Ethiopia in 2008 .

Question: Who schooled someone?

Larry and Carri Williams

Question: Who did someone school?

their six children

six children

Question: When did someone school someone?

when they adopted a girl and a boy

Question: Who adopted someone?

Larry and Carri Williams

they

Question: Who did someone adopt?

a girl and a boy

Question: When did someone adopt someone?

in 2008


The two were seen by their new parents as rebellious , according to friends .

Question: Who was seen?

The two

Question: Who was someone seen by?

their new parents

new parents

Question: How was someone seen?

as rebellious

Question: What was someone seen by?

rebellious

Question: What is according to someone?

Question: Who is something according to?

friends


Late one night in May this year , the adopted girl , Hana , was found face down , naked and emaciated in the backyard ; her death was caused by hypothermia and malnutrition , officials determined .

Question: When was someone adopted?

Late one night in May this year

Question: Who was adopted?

girl

Hana

Question: When was someone founded?

Late one night in May this year

Question: Who was founded?

the adopted girl , Hana

Hana

Question: How was someone founded?

face down

Question: When was someone emaciated somewhere?

Late one night in May this year

Question: Who was emaciated?

the adopted girl , Hana

Hana

Question: Where was someone emaciated?

in the backyard

Question: What was caused?

her death

Question: What was something caused by?

hypothermia and malnutrition

Question: Who determined something?

officials


According to the sheriff ’s report , the parents had deprived her of food for days at a time and had made her sleep in a cold barn or a closet and shower outside with a hose .

Question: Who is something according to?

the sheriff

Question: What is according to something?

Question: Who had deprived someone?

the parents

Question: Who did someone deprive something?

her

Question: What did someone deprive someone of?

food

Question: How long did someone deprive someone?

for days at a time

Question: Who made something?

the parents

Question: What did someone myek?

her sleep


And they often whipped her , leaving marks on her legs .

Question: Who whipped someone?

they

Question: When did someone whip someone?

often

Question: Who did someone whip?

her

Question: Who left something?

they

Question: What was left?

marks

Question: Where is something being left?

on her legs


The mother had praised the Pearls’ book and given a copy to a friend , the sheriff ’s report said .

Question: Who had praised something?

The mother

Question: What did someone praise?

the Pearls’ book

Question: Who gave something?

The mother

Question: What did someone give?

a copy

Question: Who did someone give something to?

a friend

Question: What did someone say?

Question: Who said something?

the sheriff ’s report


Hana had been beaten the day of her death , the report said , with the 15-inch plastic tube recommended by Mr. Pearl .

Question: Who was beaten?

Hana

Question: When was someone beaten?

the day of her death

Question: What did someone say?

Question: What said something?

the report

Question: How did someone say something?

Question: What was recommended?

the 15-inch plastic tube

Question: Who recommended something?

Mr. Pearl


“ It ’s a good spanking instrument , ” Mr. Pearl said in the interview .

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

a good spanking instrument

Question: Who said something?

Mr. Pearl

Question: Where did someone say something?

in the interview


“ It ’s too light to cause damage to the muscle or the bone . ”

Question: What ’s something?

It

Question: What does something ’s?

too light

Question: What is being caused?

damage

damage to the muscle or the bone