U.S. Congress plans last-minute votes to avert default

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U.S. Congress plans last-minute votes to avert default

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-congress-prepares-vote-breakthrough-fiscal-deal-170242059--sector.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/EQm2hzNTUzU4nx92KIN.rw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-10-16T170242Z_1_CBRE99F1BCQ00_RTROPTP_2_USA-FISCAL.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Senator Collins is trailed by reporters as she walks with Senator McCain in U.S. Capitol in Washington" align="left" title="Senator Collins is trailed by reporters as she walks with Senator McCain in U.S. Capitol in Washington" border="0" /></a>By Thomas Ferraro and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers were poised to vote late Wednesday on a bipartisan 11th-hour Senate deal to break the fiscal impasse in Washington and avert a historic debt default. With the government's borrowing authority set to run out on Thursday, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said he would allow the deeply divided House to vote on the Senate plan for a short-term increase in the debt limit and a government reopening. It is expected to pass with mostly Democratic votes. The agreement would extend U.S. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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