Maybe this is one disaster that could be averted if we are willing to act with a sense of responsibility.

如果我们有责任感，愿意行动起来，这也许倒是可以避免的灾难。

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And what is important about this is that we have not simply averted what would have been an absolute disaster, assuming, again, Congress acts, which would have been passing a period beyond which we would no longer have had borrowing authority and risking -- creating the possibility of default on our obligations for the first time in our history.

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