2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis

When

1 Aug 2011

Kind

Event

Coordinates

40.00° N, 100.00° W

Placed at the country named in the title of the event it links, United States.

The United States Congress votes on a deal to resolve the United States debt-ceiling crisis with the House of Representatives passing it. U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Arizona) casts her first vote since her traumatic brain injury at the hands of a deranged assassin.

In 2011, ongoing political debate in the United States Congress about the appropriate level of government spending and its effect on the national debt and deficit reached a crisis centered on raising the debt ceiling, leading to the passage of the Budget Control Act of 2011.

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