Wednesday, October 16, 2013

U.S. Congress prepares to vote on breakthrough fiscal deal

Senator Collins is trailed by reporters as she walks with Senator McCain in U.S. Capitol in Washington By Thomas Ferraro and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate leaders struck a bipartisan 11th-hour deal to break the fiscal impasse on Wednesday, and the Republican-led House of Representatives agreed to take it up as Congress moved to avert a historic debt default. With the government's borrowing authority set to run out on Thursday, aides said House Speaker John Boehner would allow the deeply divided House to vote on the Senate plan for a short-term increase in the debt limit and a reopening of government, which was expected to pass with mostly Democratic votes. ...








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