GOP leader: Give President Obama new debt limit power

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

WASHINGTON -- With compromise talks at a standstill, Senate Republicans unexpectedly offered Tuesday to hand President Barack Obama new powers to avert a first-ever government default threatened for Aug. 2.

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