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"About 24 hours after the first Republican proposal backed by Speaker John A. Boehner stalled, the House voted 218 to 210 to approve a plan that would increase the federal debt ceiling in two stages, with the second installment of $1.6 trillion contingent on Congressional approval of a Constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget," the New York Times is reporting. The proposal has since been tabled by the Senate.
Now, Republicans are taking to Twitter en masse to lobby back a similar social media compromise directive at the commander-in-chief, who's now short more than 36,000 followers following his marathon of #compromise-related tweets.
The following is a sampling of their tweets: