Harry Reid Debt Ceiling

Harry Reid Moves To Draw Line In Sand On Debt Deal

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.22.2012

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WASHINGTON — Republicans will have to drop their insistence on retaining tax cuts for the rich and plans to reshape Medicare before there can be...

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Should Super Congress Be Super Transparent?

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 10.02.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The proposed so-called "super Congress," created by congressional leaders in the debt deal and required to find $1.5 trillion in debt re...

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Senate To Vote On Debt Ceiling Deal

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 10.02.2011

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WASHINGTON — With scant time to spare, President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday to avoid an unprecedented national default that he said...

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Default Missile

Shan Wells | Posted 10.01.2011

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House Democrats: Vote Down This Budget Surrender and Prevent the Suicide of the Democratic Project

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 09.30.2011

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House Democrats and Nancy Pelosi--You are all that stands between the American people and unconditional surrender to the darkest forces in American society and the mass suicide of the liberal Democratic project.

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Harry Reid Tentatively Signs Off On Debt Ceiling Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.30.2011

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has tentatively signed off on a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling, which has been prima...

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Reid Vote Delayed To Sunday As Hints Of Deal Emerge

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.29.2011

WASHINGTON -- A final Senate vote on raising the nation's debt ceiling was put off 12 more hours as the two sides inched toward a long-sought agreemen...

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Harry Reid: GOP Leaders 'Still Refuse To Negotiate In Good Faith'

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 09.29.2011

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Speaking on the Senate floor early Saturday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid dismissed a suggestion made just hours earlier by Senate Minori...

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Democrats, GOP Have Now Rejected Each Other's Debt Plans

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 09.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- With just three days left until the country is set to begin defaulting on its debt, the House rejected a debt proposal by Senate Majorit...

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43 GOP Senators Vow To Oppose Reid's Debt Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Hours before the Senate is set to vote on Majority Leader Harry Reid's latest debt ceiling legislation, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell'...

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Senate, House Race Against The Clock

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 09.29.2011

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WASHINGTON — In a last-minute stab at compromise, Republican congressional leaders and the White House made significant progress Saturday towar...

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Obama: Republicans Wasted 'Precious Days' On Boehner Debt Ceiling Plan

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.29.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP/The Huffington Post) -- Claiming that the two parties aren't that far apart, President Barack Obama is urging Democratic and Republican...

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Harry Reid's Debt Ceiling Bill Puts His Cards On The Table

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.28.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) unveiled a new debt ceiling bill Friday night that strongly resembles a plan first suggested ...

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Senate Debt Bill Poised To Take U.S. To Edge Of Default

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.28.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats think they see a path to raising the nation's debt ceiling, but it will literally take the country down to the wire -- ...

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Uncertainty Looms Large In Debt Ceiling Debate

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 09.28.2011

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WASHINGTON — In an unforgiving display of partisanship, the Republican-controlled House approved emergency legislation Friday night to avoid an ...

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John Boehner's Debt Ceiling Bill Stalls In House

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.27.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A Republican plan that would have hiked the nation's debt ceiling for only six months and left the country's spending captive to a "Supe...

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Senate Leaders Trade Blame Amid Contentious Showdown

AP | Posted 09.27.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Senate's Democratic and Republican leaders traded blame for the debt standoff Thursday, as the House prepared to vote on the GO...

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Boehner Debt Ceiling Bill Faces House Vote

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.27.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republican leaders pleaded with their recalcitrant rank and file Thursday to back a plan to stave off an unprecedented govern...

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CBO: Reid Debt Ceiling Plan Would Save More Than Boehner's Proposal

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.26.2011

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WASHINGTON - The Senate Democratic plan to raise the debt ceiling would slash spending cuts far deeper than House Speaker John Boehner's proposal, acc...

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Boehner Rewriting Debt Ceiling Plan, Faces Tea Party Opposition

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 09.26.2011

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WASHINGTON — Crisis concerns rising, House Republican leaders shrugged off a White House veto threat and an outbreak of tensions within their ow...

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Rival Debt Ceiling Plans In Congress Create Stalemate

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 09.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Stung by revelations that his plan would cut spending less than advertised, House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday postponed a vote ...

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Dems: Boehner Once Backed A Debt Plan Similar To Reid's Proposal

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.24.2011

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WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) backed a debt limit plan in the spring that sounds very much like a deal Senate Majority Leader Harr...

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Schumer: Boehner Could 'Rally Tea Party Troops' Around Harry Reid's Debt Ceiling Plan

AP | Posted 09.24.2011

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WASHINGTON — The third ranking Democrat in the Senate says a deficit-reduction proposal put forward by Majority Leader Harry Reid has the best c...

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John Boehner Unveils New Debt Ceiling Plan

AP | Posted 09.24.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a blunt challenge to President Barack Obama, House Republicans drafted legislation Monday to avert a potentially devastating Aug...

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John Boehner: 'There Is No Deal' On Debt Ceiling, Democrats Have 'Done Nothing'

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.21.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP/The Huffington Post) -- Speaker John Boehner declared Friday that the House has "done its job" toward resolving the impasse over raisin...

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