Debt Showdown Reveals an Out-of-Touch Congress

By Valerie Elverton Dixon
Jun 2, 2011
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God only knows what alternative universe the United States Congress occupies. On May 31, the U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass a bill to raise the debt limit of the United States.

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