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 — U.S. lawmakers, facing a potentially calamitous government default in just days, held votes Friday that highlighted their intense partisan divide and did little to end a torturous political standoff. The Republican-led House of Representatives approved a plan to temporarily raise the government’s borrowing authority, knowing it was headed to certain defeat in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Less than two hours later, the Senate voted it down.
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s feisty ex-elections chief announced Friday that he won’t run in 2012 for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Sherrod Brown. Republican Ken Blackwell made his intentions known in an interview with The Daily Caller, for which he’s a columnist, and later in a brief statement on Twitter: “I am not running for the United States Senate.”
ISLAMABAD — A top U.S. emissary warned Pakistan on Monday that “actions not words” are needed to tackle militant sanctuaries, as the two countries tried to salvage their relationship two weeks after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in a garrison town close to the national capital.