The shut down of the U.S. Government was averted after the U.S. Congress gave its final approval to a $1 trillion spending plan that will keep the government doors open until September. September 30 is the end of the governments fiscal year.
Hostile Rhetoric continues to pour out of North Korea today as North Korea threatened the United States with attack on our bases on Guam and Okinawa.
A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman, on Wednesday, promised "strong military counteraction" after the U.S. carried out it second fly-over of its nuclear payload capable B-52 on Tuesday during a training mission in the "Foal Eagle" joint training operations in South Korea.
President Obama and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel released statements honoring the sacrifices of U.S. servicemen, their families and the Iraqi people on Tuesday, the 10th anniversary of the the start of the war in Iraq. The rest of Washington is quiet.