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Fay Wagstaff, of El Paso, Texas, sits on the front steps of the closed Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, this morning. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)