Setting aside the issue of the debt ceiling, there is a lot at stake.
The debt ceiling increase, does that need to go to the Hill this week?
But the debt ceiling debate should show us that this is no longer guaranteed to work.
The Treasury was about to hit the debt ceiling, sometime in middle to late February.
Refusing to raise the debt ceiling may be a useful tactic to help restore fiscal sanity.
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You know the examples: the debt ceiling debate, the job plan, food safety regulations, etc.
The debt ceiling impasse has already begun to rear its ugly face in short-term credit markets.
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And members and leaders of Congress have said they will vote to raise the debt ceiling.
Cantor explained why he argued at the retreat against using the debt ceiling as political leverage.
How does one get from that, to a mandated increase in the debt ceiling?
During the past 50 years, the country has reached the debt ceiling 74 times.
Three times in the past five years the league has increased the debt ceiling for teams.
And then, unfortunately, Washington got involved in a self-inflicted wound with the debt ceiling fiasco.
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The real showdown will be on the debt ceiling and the spending sequester in March.
Tea party activists are willing to risk the consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling.
We must take action to deal with our debt, raising the debt ceiling before then.
And in this case, the debt ceiling crisis, if you will, was a manufactured crisis.
Because what will happen regardless is we will -- Congress will raise the debt ceiling.
And even if you want to throw in the raising the debt ceiling, you can.
In the debate to raise the debt ceiling, cutting spending has taken center stage.
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Reid was also bombarded with questions by reporters about gasoline prices and the debt ceiling vote.
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The debt ceiling itself is both an ill-conceived compromise and a relic of past governmental integrity.
How important is it that there is something stimulative in the debt ceiling deal?
Clearly still overhanging the markets and the economy is the ongoing debate over the debt ceiling.
With the debt ceiling threat eliminated, the process of choosing federal programs to cut will begin.
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On the debt ceiling, you sounded a bit harder today than you did last week.
So, failure to raise the debt ceiling would cause housing prices and gasoline to fall, -precipitously.
Congress had voted to raise the debt ceiling to that historic high in January 2010.
In America, politicians scramble to raise the debt ceiling level before it is too late.
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If Congress would just abolish the debt ceiling entirely, we could sail off to Greece.
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