During her five-day cruise, a water line broke in the hallway ceiling near her cabin, and a separate sewer line broke outside the main dining hall, she said.

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Many of these debt-fighters are determined to hold the line against a debt ceiling increase.

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You can see straight up to the ceiling and across every row on the line.

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Hanging something low from the ceiling offers a welcome break in one's line of vision down the room.

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The only bottom line that I have is that we have to extend this debt ceiling through the next election, into 2013.

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Upstairs, he found that a frozen toilet had shattered and fallen away from the wall, snapping off the feed line at floor level, and water was jetting up to the ceiling.

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And certainly on the measure that -- the bottom line measure, which is one that would allow for the debt ceiling to be raised, the one created by Senator McConnell to raise the debt ceiling, at the very least, some variation of that needs to be in place so that the United States does not default on its obligations.

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