April 11, 2011
Debt Ceiling Vote: Just for the Record
April 11, 2011
The next big war to come up in Congress is the vote to raise the debt ceiling. It will be the eleventh time over the past eleven years the ceiling has been raised. Of the past ten, seven were under President George W. Bush and three under President Obama. Republicans voted enforce to raise the ceiling all seven times under Bush but not once under Obama. Therefore they can not be taken serious about being fiscally concerned. This is business as usual; partisan politics.
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