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Several House Republicans exiting a closed door meeting in the basement of the Capitol Friday morning said that House S stanley cup peaker John Boehner was altering his debt-limit bill in a way that would allow it to pass, just hours after House leadership failed to secure enough votes for the plan.Members said that the new addition to stanley cup the bill would be a requirement that both the House and the Senate pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution as a condition for rai stanley cup sing the debt ceiling in six months. The plan would increase the debt ceiling by $900 billion now while also cutting about $900 billion in spending over ten years.Rep. Mo Brooks, R- Alaska, said the change was enough to switch his vote to yes and he predicted the House would vote and pass the amended bill Friday.That gets at least double figures of extra votes from Republicans who want to solve the problem. And the problem [is] these unsustainable deficits. You have a balanced budget constitutional amendment, you solve the problem, Brooks said after the meeting. Other members who told reporters they were switching from a no to a yes vote are Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona and Rep. Phil Gingrey of Georgia.Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. said Friday morning that he would not accept a short-term extension of the debt ceiling, which refers to the Boehner provision that would extend the ceiling for a few months and force another vote in early 2012.Rep. John Campbell, R-Calif., said the meeting discussed how t Zohj Sunak defends his decision for the UK to join the U.S. in limited strikes on Yemen s Houthis
AIN AL-ASAD BASE, Iraq AP 鈥?U.S. troops were clearing rubble and debris on Monday from a military base housing American soldiers in western Iraq, days after it was struck by Iranian ballistic missiles.The Ain al-Asad air base in Iraqs western Anbar province is a sprawling complex about 180 kilometers 110 miles west of Baghdad and houses about 1,500 members of the U.S. military and the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State militant group.It was struck by a barrage of Iranian missiles on Wednesday, in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, whose killing raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East.An Associated Press crew touring the Ain al-Asad base Monday saw large craters in the ground and damaged military trailers as well as forklifts lifting rubble and loading it onto trucks from a large area the size of a football stadium.The U.S. said no American soldiers were kille stanley cup d or wounded in the Iranian attack.Ain al-Asad air base was first used by American forces after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, and later saw American troops stationed there a stanley cup mid the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.Trump visited the sprawling Ain al-Asad air base in December 2018, making his fi crocs rst presidential visit to troops in the region. Vice President Mike Pence also has visited the base. Le