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Tag: Patty Murray
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Thursday, December 19th 2013 - 05:55 UTC
US congress agrees budget deal reducing risk of government shutdown
On the same day the Federal Reserve announced tapering of stimulus, the US Senate passed a two-year budget deal to ease automatic spending cuts and reduce the risk of a government shutdown, but fights were already breaking out over how to implement the budget pact
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Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 00:19 UTC
US political stalemate as the Congress fails to agree on budget cuts and debt
A special debt-reduction committee in the US Congress failed to reach agreement, extending partisan gridlock into the 2012 election year and setting the stage for 1.2 trillion dollars in automatic spending cuts.
