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Republicans will return to debt limit brinkmanship with a new set of demands to avert default early in 2014, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan signaled on Sunday.

"We as a caucus, along with our Senate counterparts, are going to meet and discuss what it is we want to get out of the debt limit. We don't want nothing out of this debt limit. We're going to decide what it is we can accomplish out of this debt limit fight," Ryan said on Fox News Sunday.

He indicated that Republicans will come up with their ransom demand when they meet after the holiday recess.

"We're going to meet in our retreats after the holidays and discuss exactly what it is we're going to try and get for this," he said.

Republicans have caved twice and raised the limit without any substantive concessions, most recently in October, after initially demanding ransom for averting an economically catastrophic default both times. But even if GOP leaders recognize that another hostage standoff is probably futile, if not self-defeating, it won't be easy to talk their members out of waging a battle with the President. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/gop-will-take-debt-limit-hostage-again
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