Maxwell Frost: “Again, I urge that we defeat the previous question. This is a very serious matter. It is the other side of the aisle…”

“Again, I urge that we defeat the previous question. This is a very serious matter. It is the other side of the aisle that will not bring a debt ceiling vote to the floor this week. They bring only this little piece of it. It is an important piece, and we will want Social Security checks to go out, but they will not bring a debt ceiling increase. Mr. Speaker, they want to take this right to the brink. They want to walk us up to 2 or 3 days before the deadline, and hope that the perils of Pauline will somehow rescue the lady from the track, as the train heads to hear. If the people on the other side have miscalculated, and if the train in fact runs over that maiden on February 29, this country is in enormous, enormous trouble.”