Republicans grow defiant against raising the nation's debt limit
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Republicans are digging in on their promise to vote against increasing the debt ceiling, lining up in defiance even as Democrats look for ways to pick off votes by attaching the measure to a must-pass spending bill.
When lawmakers return to Washington next week, they'll be met with a pile of deadlines: 10 days to fund the government and just a matter of weeks to find a way to increase the nation's borrowing limit before the country defaults on its debt, but so far there is no indication that the two parties are sitting down to iron out their differences. It's raising the prospects for a fall of crisis on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers could be on the cusp of a shutdown and a credit default within a matter of weeks.
"Our leadership is going to have to get together for us to get together, and that hasn't happened yet," said the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Dick Shelby of Alabama.
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