And the militia, made up of fighters loyal to the anti-American al-Sadr, seems to be a house divided.
However, defaulting on debt payments, or any payments for that matter (Social Security, military, funding for states) is in the hands of the Congress, which remains a house divided.
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Its eight House seats are divided equally between the parties, and while its political differences are great, when taken as a whole Maryland is moderate with a slight Democratic edge, like the nation itself.
Living Language French, by Random House Digital, is divided into beginning, intermediate and advanced sections.
However, the parliament's negotiator on the deal, Dutch liberal Sophie in 't Veld, said it was "telling and disappointing" that after nine years of negotiations with "our closest friend and ally", the US, "we can only come up with an agreement that commands half-hearted support from a divided house".
The House Republicans have been very divided among themselves over how much cutting to do.
Aaron Marshall, Divided Ohio House passes budget full of cuts on heels of rosy revenue news, Plain Dealer (summarizing key items in the House budget).
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"Now is the time for the President to propose solutions that actually have a chance of passing the Republican-controlled House and a closely-divided Senate, " McConnell said in a statement.
The bill still must go through the U.S. House, where the GOP is divided on the issue.
Why does the White House think the party is so divided on this?
The Supercommittee (6 members of the House of Representatives and 6 Senators divided equally between Democrats and Republicans) was established by the Budget Control Act of 2011, enacted to end the debt-ceiling crisis of last spring and summer.
Divided into three wings, the main house is built around a Belgium stone courtyard.
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Real-estate agents are divided on the benefits of putting a house on the silver screen.
The blocks were divided into 20- and 25-foot house lots with a 100-foot depth, a module that could be assembled for a variety of configurations.
At the time, with a Republican in the White House and Democratic-controlled Congress, the two parties were divided on how to deal with a deficit that had tripled during the Reagan Administration.
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Be in no doubt Mr Obama has won a victory and the Republicans in the House have been forced to back down, and are left fuming and divided.
Richard Miller said the Secret Service's database of 24, 000 names is divided into two categories: people with access to the White House and those who no longer have access.
But a draw in the sense of a divided government, with one party in charge of the White House and another in charge of at least one chamber of Congress.
The tenor of his presidency would depend crucially on Congress: to restrain the social illiberalism and occasional isolationism of other Republicans, the best outcome would be a divided one, with the Democrats back in control of the House of Representatives.
It was a hopeful speech, especially for a president who returns to Washington tomorrow to face the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, as well as the approach of the so-called Fiscal Cliff and a sharply divided Congress with Democrats retaining the Senate and the GOP holding the House.
As Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta argued in a paper, political instability and a divided parliament - with the ruling coalition often a minority in the upper house - contributed to the slowing down of output.
Americans were almost evenly divided on whether they would believe Lewinsky or Clinton if the former White House intern testifies that she had an affair with the president and he continues to deny that such an affair ever happened.
The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers mogul has divided his donation between C Priorities USA Action and left-leaning Majority PAC and House Majority PAC.
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