The Delaware Gazette

Same goal, opposing plans for debt ‘super’ panel

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Dig­ging in for a bruis­ing strug­gle, Repub­li­cans on Con­gress’ pow­er­ful deficit-fighting “super­com­mit­tee” tar­geted Social Secu­rity and gov­ern­ment health care spend­ing Tues­day while Democ­rats pressed for higher tax rev­enue as part of any deal to reduce red ink by at least $1.2 tril­lion over the next decade.

Hope for debt deal, despite disputes, veto threat

WASHINGTON — Cri­sis con­cerns ris­ing, House Repub­li­can lead­ers shrugged off a White House veto threat and an out­break of ten­sions within their own party Wednes­day as they built sup­port for leg­is­la­tion to stave off the gov­ern­ment default threat­ened for next week. Wor­ried Wall Street sent stocks plung­ing on fears that polit­i­cal grid­lock would prevail.

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