GOP pushes debt limit increase through Congress

Friday, June 28, 2002

WASHINGTON -- Republicans barely muscled a $450 billion debt limit increase through Congress on Thursday, finally resolving an issue that had become an increasingly difficult political burden for the GOP.

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