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House GOP Frees Its Debt Hostage

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Enough Republicans joined Dems to pass clean hike.

Twenty-eight House Republicans voted to raise the debt ceiling Tuesday evening, joining Democrats to pass an increase with no strings attached and keep the government running until March 15, 2015. Rep. Paul Ryan was one of the large majority of Republicans who voted no. Tuesday morning, the House GOP leadership dropped its demand to restore cuts to military pensions in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.

Read it at Washington Post