Budget Bungle. Congress and the White House continue to debate a plan to raise the nation’s debt ceiling as of press time July 22. The Senate votes that day to kill a House-passed plan that included a balanced-budget amendment. House Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tells senators the chamber would not work over the weekend on a fallback plan he crafted with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), as previously planned, and instead would wait for the House’s next proposal.…
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