President Obama to Boehner: Put the shutdown up for a clean vote

From USA Today: President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner held separate news conferences and made sharply worded statements about the budget impasse and the looming Oct. 17 deadline when the nation reaches its debt limit.

Obama insisted that he's "not budging" on his insistence that congressional Republicans raise the borrowing authority and pass a bill to fund the government — both without any restrictions. Boehner rejected what he considers Obama's call for "unconditional surrender."