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GOP May Face Shutdown Fight

Debt Ceiling Could Trigger Early Purity Test for New Republican Members

By Steven T. Dennis and Emily Pierce
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 19, 2010, Midnight

The campaign rhetoric of tea-party-inspired Republicans is on a collision course with the federal debt limit, which could make the threat of a government shutdown an early order of business in a new Republican majority.

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