Washington Post reporter J.D. Harrison has outlined the primary components of the budget and what they would mean for small businesses. It's a comprehensive analysis worth reading, in our opinion.

Below are a few highlights from the article for On Small Business:

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Starting Wednesday at 2 pm eastern time, the Washington Post is hosting a series of five Google hangouts to examine the state of marriage in America.

The goal is to look at marriage in light of the Supreme Court hearing two cases: 1) a challenge to California's Proposition 8 which banned gay marriage and 2) a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act. Both cases are expected to be heard by the Court next week.

Starting Wednesday at 2 pm eastern time, the Washington Post is hosting a series of five Google hangouts to examine the state of marriage in America.

The goal is to look at marriage in light of the Supreme Court hearing two cases: 1) a challenge to California's Proposition 8 which banned gay marriage and 2) a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act. Both cases are expected to be heard by the Court next week.

Former president Bill Clinton has published a mea culpa of sorts in Friday's Washington Post, saying the Defense of Marriage Act he signed in 1996 is "discriminatory" and "incompatible with our Constitution." The Supreme Court, he says, should overturn the law.

Washington continues careening from crisis to crisis because President Obama is too focused on restoring Democratic control of the House, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday.

The top-ranking Senate Republican was responding to a story in Sunday's Washington Post that detailed Obama's plans to help House Democrats retake control of the lower chamber.

Washington is a-twitter today with the back and forth between famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward and the White House regarding his recounting -- in a weekend op-ed -- of how the idea of the sequester came into being.

A few items that caught our attention today:

"When I walk down the hall, people still wave, but with fewer fingers." Such is the life these days of perhaps any given agency CFO in charge of planning for the possible sequester, which would entail furloughs for many federal employees. Washington Post reporter Steve Vogel provided a brief day-in-the life profile of Pentagon comptroller Robert F. Hale.

Want to get caught up on the history of State of the Union speeches but don't have hours to dedicate to reading them all? Problem solved.

The crack Washington Post video team has sorted through the SOTU speeches of the past 60 years and compiled them into a single two-minute mashup. Watch it. Then impress your friends -- and vanquish your enemies -- with how much you know.

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is in the middle of the roughest patch of a political career that has seen its fair share of tough moments.

A series of stories by the Washington Post and the New York Times detailing his connections to Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen have raised questions about whether the New Jersey Democrat can hang on to his seat. The Times editorial board has called on Senate Democrats to remove Menendez as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.