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Reid sees progress toward debt ceiling accord Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Senate Sunday that negotiators were closing in on a debt limit package, but he warned that unresolved questions remained. First Read: 'Very close' to deal that looks a lot like Boehner plan A GOP source close to the negotiations tells NBC News that both sides are "very close" to agreement on a two-step debt-ceiling deal that's essentially the Boehner plan without the balanced-budget amendment and modified triggers. First Read: In Congress, hope springs After a contentious Saturday, there appeared to be glimmers of hope that Congress could come up with a compromise to raise the debt limit by Tuesday. Slideshow: 'Taking the Hill': A rare look inside Congress With debt talks roiling Washington, D.C., Brian Williams, anchor of NBC's Nightly News, and a team of dozens of journalists are given unprecedented access to Capitol Hill for a day-in-the-life documentary. Pataki says he’s ‘considering’ White House run Former New York Gov. George Pataki told reporters “I will be very involved in some way, whether it's as a candidate or supporting another candidate or some other capacity." Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032552/device/rss/rss.xml

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