Mitch McConnell News
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Updated 10 minutes ago
House Republicans will vote next week on legislation to limit spending and tie a $2.4 trillion increase in the U.S. debt ceiling to a constitutional amendment to balance the budget, a plan President Barack Obama dismissed as not “serious.”
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Updated 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty said he doesn’t support Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s last-choice plan to raise the U.S. debt limit, calling it a “Band-Aid on a broken bone.”
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Updated 1 hour, 11 minutes ago
As President Barack Obama works for a bipartisan deal to raise the government’s debt ceiling, both the Republicans wanting to replace him and Democrats seeking the best way to re-elect him have emerged as obstacles.
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As President Barack Obama works for a bipartisan deal to raise the government’s debt ceiling, both the Republicans wanting to replace him and Democrats seeking the best way to re-elect him have emerged as obstacles.
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President Barack Obama pressed Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to give him options for a deficit-cutting deal that lawmakers could support as part of raising the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit by an Aug. 2 deadline.
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Updated 2 hours, 40 minutes ago
President Barack Obama pressed Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to give him options for a deficit-cutting deal that lawmakers could support as part of raising the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit by an Aug. 2 deadline.
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President Barack Obama told congressional leaders to report to him within two days on what debt-limit options their members can support, Democratic and Republican officials said after today’s negotiating session.
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President Barack Obama told congressional leaders to report to him within two days on what debt-limit options their members can support, Democratic and Republican officials said after today’s negotiating session.
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I get the feeling that it’s all over but the shouting. We may look back and say that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s convoluted parliamentary “backup plan” marked the effective end of the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis. The winner? President Barack Obama.
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Updated 2 hours, 56 minutes ago
I get the feeling that it’s all over but the shouting. We may look back and say that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s convoluted parliamentary “backup plan” marked the effective end of the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis. The winner? President Barack Obama.
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