U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) (C) is flanked by reporters and police as he departs after a Republican Senate caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, October 16, 2013. U.S. Senate leaders struck a bipartisan 11th-hour deal to break the fiscal impasse on Wednesday, and the Republican-led House of Representatives agreed to take it up as Congress moved to avert a historic debt default.
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