http://news.yahoo.com/senate-kills-latest-house-debt-measure-002700264.html
By The Associated Press - Associated Press | AP – 32 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has killed the latest effort by the House to raise the government's borrowing cap.
Democrats and several Republicans killed the GOP measure by a 59-41 vote Friday night, just minutes after it arrived from the House. Democrats opposed the measure because it would require another painful debt-limit debate early next year.
The move continues a standoff over the debt limit but could set the table for negotiations this weekend on compromise legislation that could pass the Democratic Senate and the GOP-controlled House before an Aug. 2 deadline to prevent a potentially disastrous default on U.S. obligations like interest payments and Social Security checks.
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Zim: So, will the dippycrats FINALLY offer up
something 'We The People' might approve of?
Or is the senate's grand scam going to find itself
D.O.A. when they finally send something over to the
House?
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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