Echoing the words of many other lawmakers who voted with him, U.S. Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-Genoa Township) said in an interview with the Gazette that the debt-ceiling increase bill passed this week is a “first step” toward a more sustainable future for the United States government.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner abruptly broke off talks with President Barack Obama Friday night on a deal to make major cuts in federal spending and avert a threatened government default, sending already uncertain compromise efforts into instant crisis.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to reach a sweeping long-term deal within two weeks to raise the nation’s borrowing limit rather than “kick the can down the road” with a makeshift, short-term solution to stave off a first-ever U.S. default. And he declared the agreement must include the tax hikes Republicans strongly oppose.