“(1) House Republicans Regroup Around Boehner Plan as Senate Dems Tea Partiers Balk”
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(1)Six days away from a potentially calamitous government default House Republicans appeared to be coalescing Wednesday around a work-in-progress plan by House Speaker John Boehner to increase the U.S. borrowing limit and chop $1 trillion in federal spending. (2)But the measure got a thumbs-down from both Senate Democrats and tea party activists a telling illustration of the perilous politics along the pathway to a deal.(3)Democrats and Republicans alike tried to claim the moral high ground in a standoff that has put financial markets on edge and left stocks falling.