"FILE – In this Jan. 3, 1996 file photo President Clinton ponders a reporters question during a  White House briefing room news conference about the federal budget impasse as the Republican House held firm, rejecting a move to end the 19-day partial government shutdown. The president condemned the defiance and continued impasse,  and called it then ""an unnatural disaster.""   (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)"
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