Sentences with phrase «debt ceiling standoff»

VPN: As a global company, how concerned are you with the debt ceiling standoff?

«Unlike the debt ceiling standoff, with its competing claims of trillions in cuts, the FAA impasse involves only a tiny slice of the federal budget.

There were, among others, the debt ceiling standoff - cum - rating downgrade of 2011 and the fiscal cliff scare of late 2012, followed by awfully - timed tax hikes and spending cuts earlier this year.

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The borrowing will help the government boost a cash balance that was depleted during the debt - ceiling standoff between Congress and the White House.

A wealthy Republican lawyer and investment banker, Powell left the private equity world in 2010 to join the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington, D.C, think tank, where he quietly lobbied Congress to raise the debt ceiling, building consensus during the politically charged standoff in 2011.

NEW YORK (WCBS 880 / AP)-- The standoff on Capitol Hill over deficit reduction and raising the debt ceiling shows no signs of breaking.

(CNN)-- Two weeks after the bruising standoff ended over government spending and the debt limit, the House and Senate this week are taking the final steps to formally allow the debt ceiling to rise.

My only hope is that we don't let education policy get hijacked (with due deference here to vice-president Biden) by the same partisan bickering that flavored the debt - ceiling standoff a couple weeks ago.

The action in the Treasury market during the debt - ceiling standoff certainly affirmed investor confidence in U.S. debt.