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House Passes Clean Debt Ceiling Extension With Limited GOP Support

Boehner Caves

Only 27 other Republicans joined Speaker John Boehner Tuesday in supporting an increase in the debt ceiling.

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Hastert Rule? Never heard of it.

On Tuesday, in a rushed vote in advance of a snowstorm due to hit the Eastern Seaboard, Congress voted 221-201 to avoid the possibility of default and allow the Treasury to continue borrowing in 2015.

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