Because ideas can flow so freely, efforts to limit distribution raise challenging enforcement obstacles.
For example, excessive debt and persistent unemployment may limit spending, raise interest rates and crimp growth.
Additionally, Congress should provide that when it next comes time to raise the debt limit, a super-majority vote of both Houses of Congress will be required to raise the debt ceiling by a percentage greater than the rate the economy is growing.
McMillan deconstructs industry arguments that fiduciary standards would limit customer choice and raise costs.
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It will also raise the limit for investors seeking to put yuan funds, raised overseas, in China's markets.
The U.S. could suffer a downgrade on its debt, raising borrowing costs when Congress does eventually raise the limit.
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If lawmakers do not agree to raise the limit, the government will not be able to pay its bills.
Since Congress can vote to raise the limit, its existence has been more of a political nuisance than an actual barrier.
The government of West Bengal has said it will raise the limit.
The Shays-Meehan bill would ban soft money -- unregulated, unlimited funds to political parties -- and it would raise the limit on hard money contributions to individual candidates.
Increasingly, state and local governments want to toll existing lanes, both to limit congestion and to raise funds that could be applied to all aspects of transport budgets.
As US federal debt approaches its statutory ceiling, confidence on Capitol Hill is growing that a deal to raise the limit will soon be struck, avoiding the theoretical possibility of default.
The Shays-Meehan bill, like the McCain-Feingold legislation, would ban soft money -- unregulated, unlimited funds to political parties -- and would raise the limit on hard money contributions to individual candidates.
The companies also welcomed the plan to raise the limit on foreign investment in telecommunications to 100% and said they will continue investing, competing and finding ways to lower prices to consumers.
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Congress must agree to raise the limit on how much debt the U.S. can have by the end of February otherwise the country risks default and could be slapped with damaging credit downgrades.
We must raise the limit on our debt so that the government can continue, so that we can keep the 100, 000 troops safe in Afghanistan, so that the employees of the government can be paid, and a myriad of programs paid for by the US government.
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We are much more ready to abandon or sell a technology in clean tech today if it fails to be highly differentiated because one has to anticipate a continuing negative clean tech funding environment that will limit the ability to raise equity financing for these companies in the future.
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Like Barack Obama in the US, Mr Key's essential economic-policy challenge is that he will be expected to provide substantial economic stimulus as soon as he takes office, yet the weakness of the domestic economy will reduce tax revenues and limit his scope to raise spending without also increasing the fiscal burden.
Specifically, Leader McConnell has laid out an elaborate plan to raise the debt limit.
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The sad spectacle of waiting until the last minute to raise the debt limit.
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They will, presumably, strike a deal, raise the debt limit and avoid a Simpsons-worthy farce.
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Senator Simpson, from the deficit commission, said something colorful about the fight to raise the debt limit.
Since 1960, Congress acted 78 times to raise the debt limit, with most of those times occurring under Republican presidencies.
But Obama today rejected suggestions that he could invoke the 14th Amendment to raise the debt limit on his own.
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The Majority Leader of the House has voted to raise the debt limit five times in his career in the House.
In 2011, Obama and Republicans could not agree on cutting the deficit enough to convince the House to raise the debt limit.
Obama said Tuesday that action to raise the debt limit had been essential but more and different steps were needed.
President Obama has said a vote in Congress on whether to raise the debt limit should be separate from the budget debate.
As Geithner noted in an earlier letter, the U.S. government has never failed to raise the debt limit in a timely fashion.
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