Posted
11/19/2004 04:38:00 PM
by Douglas
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one.The US House of Representatives voted to raise the debt ceiling by 800 billion dollars, helping Washington avoid running short of operating funds.
By a party-line vote of 208 to 204, lawmakers agreed to increase the level of the US debt to nearly 8.2 trillion dollars, the third massive debt limit increase in as many years.
The vote comes one day after the US Senate, also on a party-line vote, approved a similar measure.
It didn't increase
to $800 Billion, it increased
by $800 Billion! Consider that when you get the illusion that Republicans are for 'small government' or maintain a sibilance of fiscal conservatism.
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