Republicans put off vote on debt limit

WASHINGTON -- An intensive endgame at hand, Republican leaders abruptly postponed a vote Thursday night on legislation to avert a threatened government default and slice federal spending by nearly $1 trillion. "The votes obviously were not there," conceded Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., after Speaker ...

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