World News | Jennifer Steinhauer, The New York Times | Tuesday August 2, 2011
The Senate voted Tuesday to raise the government's debt ceiling and cut trillions of dollars from its spending, finally ending a fractious partisan battle just hours before the government's borrowing authority was set to run out. The bill, which passed 74 to 26 after a short debate devoid of the oratorical passion that had echoed through both chamb...
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