GOP leader: House to vote on debt limit increase

By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

Published Friday, Jan. 18, 2013 | 10:52 a.m.

Updated Friday, Jan. 18, 2013 | 2:28 p.m.

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders Friday offered President Barack Obama a three-month reprieve to a looming, market-rattling debt crisis, backing off demands that any immediate extension of the government's borrowing authority be accompanied by stiff spending cuts. The retreat came with a caveat aimed at prodding Senate Democrats to pass a budget after almost four years of failing to do so: a threat to cut off the pay of lawmakers in either House or Senate if their chamber fails to pass a budget this year. House Republicans have passed budgets for two consecutive years. The idea got a frosty reception ...

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By Markey

Jan. 19, 2013

5:42 a.m.

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Republican grifters are shifting from the debt limit BS and going "full bore" on gun control now..
By JohnChachas (John Chachas)

Jan. 19, 2013

9:17 p.m.

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Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader has failed to bring a full budget to a vote for 4 straight years. Not one vote. None. Zip. Nada. In Business, if you fail to bring a budget to your board, you get fired for cause. That means no severance and no future job, as you've disgraced yourself. Senate Democrats have done the same. And Senator Reid has done more to harm the operations of the legislative branch in this country than perhaps any Senator in two centuries. Classy. Nice work, Harry. People in Nevada should be embarrassed for having imposed him on the rest of the nation.