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Obama Signs Deficit Plan

POSTED: August 02, 2011, 12:00 am

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President Obama reacts after the Senate passed the emergency deficit reduction legislation, raising the debt ceiling just hours before the nation would have defaulted on its financial obligations.





Source: The White House

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