Via the Coffee Party Movement:

John Boehner is pictured in the photo, but not mentioned in the article. Is the House on board? "U.S. lawmakers were close to a last-minute $3 trillion deal on Sunday to raise the U.S. borrowing limit and assure financial markets that the United States will avoid a potentially catastrophic default."

 

 

White House back in debt talks as deadline looms

www.reuters.com

 

Democratic Senator. Charles Schumer said it seemed clear that the emerging deal would raise the debt ceiling enough "so we don't have to come back to this until 2013." A key demand of Obama was to not take up the issue in 2012, an election year.