Sentences with phrase «recent debt ceiling»

During the most recent debt ceiling raise in late - 2011, it became an issue.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama will propose ideas for how the special congressional committee created by the recent debt ceiling deal can reach a deficit reduction plan that exceeds the required $ 1.5 trillion total, a White House spokesman said Wednesday.

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Examples in recent years include the dispute over the U.S. debt ceiling and European political turmoil.

[245] The most recent increase in the U.S. debt ceiling to $ 17.2 trillion took effect in February 2014.

Israel, not surprisingly, hewed to the party line, blaming the Tea Partiers in the House GOP for the shutdown and the lack of a debt ceiling deal, and pointing to recent polling that showed the Republicans are being blamed more than the Democrats for the mess in Washington — and could pay a price for it come 2014.

During a Seante leadership news conference today in DC, Senator Chuck Schumer joked that the House Republicans have mellowed since their recent retreat to Williamsburg, Virginia, where the conference decided not to fight the White House over raising the debt ceiling.

Wikipedia notes several recent changes to the debt ceiling.

As demonstrated by the recent debate in Washington over the debt ceiling, the United States will decline if Democrats and Republicans are unable to compromise, Brown said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CNN's «State of the Union.»

Our recent blog post «What's up with Obama's Debt Ceiling Offer» provides some insight into this issue.

The U.S. Human Rights Network released a podcast that examines the human rights implications of the recent federal debates about U.S. government debt and the debt ceiling.

It's been hard to ignore the recent news about our nation's current debt crisis and whether or not Congress will vote to increase America's debt ceiling — which is the amount of money the nation will be allowed to spend to continue paying what...