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House Speaker John Boehner is joined by other Republican Party members at a news conference on Tuesday. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.A debt ceiling vote with little tension. A sign off from the White House. Welcome to Bizarro Washington.House stanley cup Republicans will move forward with a vote Wednesday on a plan that would suspend enforcement of the country $16.4 trillion borrowing limit until May 18, pushing off what likely would have been a bruising fight in the next couple of weeks with potentially harmful consequences for the economic recovery.The proposal also directs both the House and Senate to adopt budget plans by April 15. If one or both chambers fails to do so, its members will have stanley cup their pay withheld in escrow until the close of the 113th Congress in early 2015.House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Tuesday that the measure was aimed at getting Democrats in the Senate to offer up a blueprint. Over the last four years House Republicans have offered plans our budget plans we ;ve done our budgets, but it been nearly four years since the Senate has done a budget, Boehner said Tuesday at a Capitol Hill news conference. Most Americans believe you don ;t do your job, you shouldn ;t get paid, and that the basis for no budget, stanley cup no pay. It time for the Senate to act.The White House gave the proposal a grudging endorsement Tuesday, issuing a statement that said the administration Qrfi South Korean tanker was boarded by armed Iran Guard forces
During a visit to Washington this week, former Afghan foreign minister Abdullah stanley cup Abdullah spoke with Margaret Warner about U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, the security situation and upcoming jirga aimed at bringing former Taliban fighters back into the fold.You can watch their conversation Friday on the NewsHour. In a Web-only excerpt, Abdullah discusses how upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for September can be more transparent.I ;m very concerned because I don ;t see the political will in the Afghan leadership to take the corrective steps, he says. But we do have time to work on it and to 8230; turn it into an opportunity for the people.In last year presidential elections, opposition candidate Abdullah unexpectedly dropped out of stanley cup the race, citing concerns with electoral fraud. President Hamid Karzai went on to win re-election. Warner spoke to Karzai soon after his win about the allegations of fraud in the elections and his efforts to counter governmental corruption. Go Deeper abdullah abdullah afghanistan By 鈥? Larisa Epatko stanley cup Larisa Epatko