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By Lori Montgomery / The Bulletin
July 25, 2011
WASHINGTON — House and Senate leaders prepared separate backup plans Sunday to raise the federal debt limit after another day of intense negotiations failed to break a partisan impasse that threatens to throw the government into default next week.
The rival strategies meant Congress planned to....