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Boehner: 'No deal' on exiting debt limit stalemate
By News on Jul 22, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaker John Boehner declared Friday that the House has "done its job" toward resolving the impasse over raising the government's debt limit and said it was time for the Senate to act....
Amid debt talks, House budget plan faces Senate
By News on Jul 22, 2011
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is moving to cast away House Republicans' budget-cutting plan Friday, clearing the way for increasingly urgent talks over raising the nation's debt limit. President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner searched once more for an ambitious $4 trillion grand bargain, but officials said wide differences remained....Obama, Panetta, Mullen to meet on gays in military
By News on Jul 22, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama plans a Friday afternoon meeting with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Adm. Mike Mullen, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, to discuss ending the 17-year ban on gays serving openly in the military....
AP sources: Panetta to OK end of military gay ban
By News on Jul 21, 2011
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta will certify that gays may serve openly in the armed services. News of his decision comes two weeks after top military leaders agreed that repealing the 17-year-old ban will not hurt military readiness....Endgame talks: Obama, House Republicans meet anew
By News on Jul 21, 2011
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- In secretive endgame negotiations, President Barack Obama and House Republican leaders reached anew on Thursday for an elusive "grand bargain" deal to cut deficits by $4 trillion or more and prevent a threatened Aug. 2 government default, officials said....