NPR News Debt Agreement Is An Answer But No Solution? By NPR Staff Published August 1, 2011 at 10:00 AM MDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is all smiles as he walks to the Senate floor to announce that a deal has been reached on the debt ceiling on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sunday, July 31, 2011.Harry Hamburg Copyright 2011 NPR