Saturday, July 30, 2011

The House passes Boehner's debt limit bill....Then the Senate shelves it.

With the U.S. moving perilously closer to defaulting on its loans, the House on Tuesday evening passed an increase in the federal debt limit tied to progress on a balanced budget, but the Senate responded less than two hours later by putting the House bill on ice.


The full story is HERE.

Note:

Twenty-two Republicans voted against the bill, which got no Democratic votes. The dissenting Republicans were:

Justin Amash (Mich.), Michele Bachmann (Minn.), Paul Broun (Ga.), Jason Chaffetz (Utah), Chip Cravaack (Minn.), Scott DeJarlais (Tenn.), Jeff Duncan (S.C.), Trey Gowdy (S.C.), Tom Graves (Ga.), Tim Huelskamp (Kan.), Timothy Johnson (Ill.), Jim Jordan (Ohio), Steve King (Iowa), Tom Latham (Iowa), Connie Mack (Fla.), Tom McClintock (Calif.), Mick Mulvaney (S.C.), Ron Paul (Texas), Tim Scott (S.C.), Steve Southerland (Fla.), Joe Walsh (Ill.), and Joe Wilson (S.C.).


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I hate this story because it begins with a notion that by not increasing the debt limit, the US will default on its loans. Geithner has already said that we will not default on our loans, yet it's reported that we will if the debt limit is not increased???

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