A New Debt Ceiling Super Committee? Republicans Plan Negotiating Team To End Stalemate

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are set to unveil a new strategy -- one that sounds startlingly like 2011's super committee -- to deal with both the federal government shutdown and the looming debt limit crisis. House leadership aides said that the idea is to pass two bills: One would ensure that government workers who are still on the job but aren't getting paid will get their checks on time; the other would create a bipartisan negotiating team of House and Senate members that would start work ...