House to take largely symbolic vote on debt ceiling

Category: US News

Publish Date: 01-17-2012 12:00 AM -0800

The vote, one in a series built into last summer's congressional deal, is expected to die in the Senate. President Obama will then have enough borrowing authority to pay the nation's bills through the November election.

As President Obama campaigns for reelection against a Congress he portrays as do-nothing, the House returns to a workload this week that could reinforce his contention: It includes a largely symbolic vote to deny his request to raise the national debt ceiling.

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