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August 3, 2011
President Barack Obama speaks in Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, after the Senate passed the debt ceiling legislation.
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Debt is a done deal, but peace fades
With scant time to spare, President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday to avoid an unprecedented national default that he said would have devastated the U.S. economy. But the truce with Republicans that defused the crisis seemed to be fading already.

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