House
Republican leaders have concluded that they cannot pass an increase in the debt
ceiling without help from Democrats, abandoning plans to tie legislation either
to ObamaCare or the Keystone pipeline.
GOP leaders had been looking at pairing legislation boosting
the debt limit to either an authorization of the pipeline or rolling back a
portion of ObamaCare. But after presenting those ideas to members and huddling
Wednesday, they determined neither would receive 218 votes from House Republicans.
That
left Republican leaders with no clear alternative to addressing the debt limit,
which the Treasury Department has said needs to be raised by the end of
February.
Instead,
it now appears that a combination of Republicans and Democrats will be needed
to get a debt-limit
boost through the House.
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