If we don't get the votes to pass the debt limit, we are in danger of defaulting, and I don't know what that means.
Tom Harkin: “If we don't get the votes to pass the debt limit, we are in danger of defaulting, and I don't know what that means.”
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Harkin warns about the potential consequences of failing to raise the debt limit.
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