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LI's House members react warily to debt pact

Originally published: July 31, 2011 10:41 PM
Updated: July 31, 2011 11:01 PM
By TOM BRUNE tom.brune@newsday.com

Congressman Steve Israel at Long Island MacArthur Airport.

Photo credit: Ed Betz | Congressman Steve Israel at Long Island MacArthur Airport. (May 20, 2011)

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WASHINGTON -- The reactions Sunday night by Long Island congressmen Peter King and Steve Israel to the announcement of an eleventh-hour debt-limit agreement hints at the perilous vote the deal faces in the House Monday or Tuesday.

King, the veteran Republican from Seaford, worked hard in a telephone interview to avoid, as he put it, "taking a victory lap." He will vote for the deal.

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