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Increasing the Public Debt Limit

Floor Speech

Date: Nov. 18, 2004
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Budget and Spending

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Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I recognize that we need to raise the debt limit this week. I vote against S. 2986 not for the purpose of causing the United States to default, but rather for the purpose of forcing a serious debate on fiscal policy.

I am confident that if this motion were to be defeated, Congress would in effect go into emergency session to deal with the fiscal issues that are before us.

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