Reuters
Analysis & Opinion President Barack Obama answers a question during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, July 11, 2011. The White House plans to nominate a new director to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
The Christian Science Monitor
Washington The initiative for resolving the debt-limit crisis is shifting back from the White House toward Capitol Hill , where House and Senate leaders are preparing alternative legislative strategies to avoid default.
Washington Post
The raising of the debt ceiling is one of those peculiar features of the American political system, right up there with the Senate filibuster and the presidential Thanksgiving turkey pardon. Every so often(89 times since 1939) Congress has had to...
Reuters
President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, July 15, 2011. Nearly two-thirds of the $86 million raised by President Barack Obama for his re-election effort in recent months...
The independent
President Barack Obama said the US Congress had a "unique opportunity" to stabilise the country's economy for decades by cutting deficits and raising the national debt limit to avoid a default. He warned that failure to do so by the 2 August deadline...
The Christian Science Monitor
Debt ceiling adversaries take a time out to face the microphones With roughly a week left for President Obama and congressional leaders to reach an agreement on raising the debt ceiling, both sides took time out to argue their case to the public. By...