Wednesday, October 16, 2013

U.S. Senate passes 11th-hour deal to end debt crisis

Cruz and Lee depart the Senate floor after their speeches before the night-time budget vote at the U.S. Capitol in Washington By Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate approved a deal on Wednesday to end a political crisis that partially shut down the federal government and brought the world's biggest economy to the edge of a debt default that could have threatened financial calamity. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives was expected to take up the measure later on Wednesday after Speaker John Boehner dropped the party's efforts to link the spending measure to changes in President Barack Obama's healthcare law. ...








via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/senate-passes-bill-avoid-default-reopen-government-000958311--sector.html

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