Debt Limit Increase

News

1. Senate Shuffle (The Note)

   Tue, 18 Dec 2012

   FLAK FOR BOEHNER. After reports over the weekend that House Speaker John Boehner had offered to put the one-year debt - limit increase on the table, the conservative Club for Growth blasted him for it. Huffington Post's Sabrina Siddiqui reports
2. 
   Obama, Boehner Continue Fiscal Cliff Talks

   Mon, 17 Dec 2012

   Boehner also reportedly offered to increase the debt ceiling as part of a deal, but aides to the Speaker note that any debt limit increase would require cuts and reforms of a greater amount. When he returned to Capitol Hill shortly after noon, Boehner
3. Boehner's Conservative Conundrum (The Note)

   Wed, 12 Dec 2012

   would not hold middle class taxes hostage to trying to protect tax cuts for write today, Boehner's public posturing is focused as much on keeping his usat.ly/XPrOrA THE RESET: DEBT LIMIT LOOMS AS NEXT FISCAL CLIFF. The
4. 
   Boehner: Obama 'Slow-Walking' to 'Fiscal Cliff'

   Tue, 11 Dec 2012

   more new 'stimulus' spending and an increase in the debt limit without cuts or reforms," Boehner said. "That's by President Obama in August 2011 as part of the last debt limit increase . "Where are the cuts? They're in bills that you
5. PM Note: Boehner's Counter-Offer, Obama's Warning to Syria, Congressmen and Used Car Salesmen

   Mon, 3 Dec 2012

   2013, but senior Republican aides said it does not explicitly include an offer to address the standoff over a debt limit increase . The GOP deal offers $800 billion in new revenue through tax reform, but Boehner insist that tax rates should
6. 
   Obama Accuses House GOP of Holding Middle Class Tax Cuts 'Hostage'

   Sat, 1 Dec 2012

   some Republicans in Congress to hold middle class tax cuts hostage simply because they refuse to let tax rates go up on the to effectively end Congress's ability to vote on the debt limit . The offer, which closely mirrors the president's previous
7. The Note's Must-Reads for Friday November 30, 2012

   Fri, 30 Nov 2012

   calls for a $1.6 trillion tax increase, a $50 billion economic-stimulus program and new power to raise the federal debt limit without Congressional approval, a broad set of demands Republicans viewed as a step back in talks to avoid looming

Videos

1. 
   Roundtable I: This Week in Politics

   Sun, 6 Jan 2013

   confrontation over the debt limit in february but the issue of the debt limit . That's just used shoot the hostage . You should be willing to shoot the hostage , go over in default act to raise the debt limit they're saying

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   over the debt limit in february

   to raise the debt limit they're
2. 
   Sen. Mitch McConnell on 'This Week'

   Sun, 6 Jan 2013

   fix it as we approach the debt limit . You say no increase in the debt limit without major cuts in spending the end. You can't take a hostage you aren't prepared to shoot more and more now, shoot the hostage . Are you prepared to do it

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   You can't take a hostage you

   the hostage .
3. 
   Boehner: Debt Limit Increase is Obama's Problem

   Tue, 12 Jul 2011

   priority. Where's the budgets the president's plan. What's gonna lay his cards on the table. This this. Debt limit increase is his problem and I mean it's time for him to by putting his plan on the table something that the congress can

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   president's plan. What's gonna lay his cards on the table. This this. Debt limit increase is his problem and I mean it's time for him to -- by putting his plan on the table something that the
4. 
   Is There a Secret Promise to Raise Debt Limit ?

   Mon, 18 Apr 2011

   had been pushing for this to be handled by itself for the debt limit to be in a so called clean bill that only handles the debt limit . The president said late last week He recognizes that

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   had been pushing for this to be handled by itself for the debt limit to be in a so called clean bill that only handles the debt limit . The president said late last week He recognizes that this is gonna have to be tied to something else. That means that
5. 
   Hitting the Ceiling

   Sun, 10 Apr 2011

   problem and failure of leadership Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America ' s debt limit it's not that President Obama used to be a Tea Party It's that when Republicans in the White House Democrats

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   deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit it's not that President Obama used to be a Tea Party -- It's that when Republicans -- in the White House Democrats
6. 
   Obama Faces Off With GOP

   Wed, 29 Jun 2011

   news conference since March. The president warned that failure raise America ' s debt limit by the August 2 deadline could cost Americans jobs. If the United discuss canceling next week's fourth of July recess to work on the debt limit .

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   first news conference since March. The president warned that failure raise America's debt limit by the August 2 deadline could cost Americans jobs. If the United States government for the first time cannot pay its bills
7. 
   Washington Deficit Showdown: Race Against the Clock

   Fri, 8 Jul 2011

   Return out of that high stakes showdown in Washington over our deficit and raising America ' s debt limit before our national line of credit expires in the next few weeks. At a White House summit yesterday the president and congressional

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   high stakes showdown in Washington over -- our deficit and raising America's debt limit before our national line of credit expires in the next few weeks. At a White House summit yesterday the president and congressional