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And Speaker Kevin McCarthy issued the new GOP roster for the House Rules Committee Monday.

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Because the debt cap limits the issuance of government bonds — a way the U.S. borrows money — these workarounds shift money among accounts and should keep the government open through at least June, according to a letter last week by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

Several of China’s largest banks have become more selective about funding real estate projects by local government financing vehicles.

The door -- >> that assumes that -- when we are -- up against the wall like average americans do, you -- reprioritize our finances. like we may pay the mortgage or rent first when we are up against the wall. the government would pay the bond holders first to a void default. that would be -- heinous if they didnt. the president might be making a scarier deal out of this and -- unnecessarily. >> even under your scenario if they partially, you know, couldnt pay their bills and sequence the most imp...

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The entire house of representatives are freshmen, theyre new. many of them have never served in public office before. >> yes, we have to have 218, which is the majority number of votes in the house to get something passed. but i think at the end what the result will be is a vote that tries to deliver one, on the fact that we dont want to see the united states default, and two, that we are actually bringing real change. >> that last part of this. there is something going on here. there is going t...

The 217 means making a deal acceptable to at least some of those houses with 87 new members. the man whos made himself their standard bearer, majority leader eric cantor put it this way. >> one-third of the republican conference and one-quarter of the entire house of representatives are freshmen, theyre new. many of them have never served in public office before. >> yes, we have to have 218, which is the majority number of votes in the house to get something passed. but i think at the end what t...

Ones of course that are actually probably the two biggest players here. you got the gang of six which of course is feeling heroic of late. mcconnell and reid have been poo-pooing all the other options because they believe their best way would be the best way to save the republic from default. you get the drift. of course, there are those house freshmen republicans who like to remind you we wouldnt even discussing this if it werent for their electoral success. the "wall street journal" endorses m...