In an address to the nation last night, President Obama urged members of Congress to act quickly to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, and reminded Americans that the price of not doing so would be catastrophic. In response, Speaker of the House John Boehner agreed that that the nation defaulting on its loans is a non-option, but insisted Congress wouldn’t hand the president a “blank check.”
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