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Will President Obama default to the 14th Amendment on the debt ceiling and ignore Congress? Could bring problems. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) says he’s ready to accept problems including “serious disruptions” to the economy. But GOP Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia is upping the ante. In National Review Online yesterday, he called for lowering the debt ceiling.

“Today, I introduced a unique bill that goes in a completely different direction than everything else we’ve been hearing out of Washington. It would force politicians to start practicing what they’ve been preaching by lowering the debt ceiling from $14.3 trillion back down to $13 trillion,” he writes.

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