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A Look Back: Debt Ceiling Debate Then and Now

By Stan Collender
Roll Call Contributing Writer
June 14, 2011, Midnight

September marks the 26th anniversary of the introduction of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, the much-maligned deficit reduction process that budget historians and analysts generally consider to have failed miserably.

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