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华盛顿发生枪击事件国会大厦已封锁

All the shooting appears to have been done by police; law enforcement sources said thesuspect did not shoot a gun and there is no indication that she had one.

Dine said it appeared there was no connection to terrorism.

Just before the Capitol lockdown, Senator John McCain of Arizona was on the Senate floorurging that President Barack Obama and a bipartisan group of senators launch negotiations tobreak the deadlock over government funding and a debt limit increase.

The House had just passed a bill to fund the National Guard and reservists who are not onactive duty during the shutdown.

The Capitol police, who were deemed "essential" staff, were at work despite the governmentshutdown, but they are not being paid.

"What really comes home to me is that these are all people who are working without pay rightnow," Representative Matt Cartwright, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, said on CNN. He wasoutside on a Capitol balcony when he said he heard seven or eight shots "all in less than asecond."

Obama was briefed on the incident, a White House official said, providing no further details.

Security is tight near the Capitol, but there have been previous shootings in the area. In 1998,a gunman burst through a security checkpoint at the Capitol and killed two Capitol Policeofficers in an exchange of fire that sent tourists and other bystanders ping for cover. Thesuspect, Russell Eugene Weston Jr., was not charged with a crime because of apparent mentalinstability.