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Articles of Interest

Obama, Nancy Pelosi And Harry Reid Joining OFA Meeting

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

By KEN THOMAS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is meeting Monday with his most loyal supporters to discuss ways to promote his agenda on issues like immigration reform and the economy as lawmakers prepare to return home for their annual summer break.

Obama was being joined by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California at a meeting of Organizing for Action, a super political action committee formed from the president’s 2012 re-election campaign.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post

History

How Congress created the debt ceiling problem

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By hnn

Josh Green points out that in 1979, Dick Gephardt, “who would later become House Democratic leader and twice run for president, devised a simple fix that met the absurd requirement of a two-step process. With help from the House parliamentarian, he established the Gephardt Rule, which decreed that when Congress adopted a budget resolution (the first step) it was automatically ‘deemed to have passed’ a commensurate increase in the debt limit (the second step). Presto. Problem solved.”…

Source:
PoliticalWire

Source URL:
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/01/17/how_congress_created_the_debt_ceiling_problem.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PoliticalWire+%28Political+Wire%29

Date:
1-17-13

Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University