debt ceiling

House Leaders Tweak Doomed Bill to Stem Conservative Insurrection

House Republican leaders have sweetened Speaker John Boehner’s debt-ceiling plan to make it more palatable to conservative holdouts, and rank-and-file members said the tweaks would likely be enough to give Boehner enough votes to pass his bill later on Friday.

A night after a dramatic rebuke to Boehner’s stewardship of the House, …

House Delays Vote on GOP Debt Bill

Updated, 10:00 PM

House Republican leaders have delayed a pivotal vote on Speaker John Boehner’s proposal to cut the deficit and raise the federal debt ceiling, suggesting they may still be scrambling for votes after three days of whipping wavering members. Laena Fallon, a spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, said the …

With Debt Talks at the Brink, It’s Business as Usual on Capitol Hill

If it weren’t for the late-night jokes and the prime-time press conferences and the cable networks’ ticking countdown clocks to Debt Armageddon, you wouldn’t have thought the name of a post office was at stake in Congress on Thursday, let alone the full faith and credit of the United States. House Speaker John Boehner was calm and …

Ron Paul, the Debt Ceiling and the GOP’s Apocalyptic Wing

Ron Paul, who is spending a ton of money in Iowa right now, is expected to finish in the top three at the Ames Straw poll in a couple weeks. There is a solid chance that he beats either Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, or both of them. Though Ames is not predictive of the outcome of the presidential nomination contest, it is a key test of …

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