Obama debt-ceiling demand complicates fiscal crisis talks
The White House and congressional Republicans continue to be at loggerheads over whether to raise tax rates on households making over $250,000 as part of a deal to avoid indiscriminate and across-the-board tax hikes and spending cuts next month. But Obama's latest demand -- the ability to approve automatic increases in the debt ceiling -- has only complicated the already-shaky talks. And Republican lawmakers this week sought to prove that the provision wouldn't even clear the Democrat-controlled Senate. As of Wednesday evening, 43 senators had signed a letter to Obama opposing the debt-limit proposal. That represents enough votes to block the measure from passing. "The Congress is ready to work with you as equal partners in addressing the coming fiscal cliff," Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and 42 other senators wrote.
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President Obama's call for a de facto permanent increase in the debt ceiling has emerged as a second major sticking point in negotiations over the looming fiscal crisis, on top of the seemingly unshakable deadlock over tax hikes.
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