Barack Obama actually said...

When we are this close simply because of politics, and we are prepared to put whatever resources are required in terms of time and energy to...

the Congress passed gave us much more power.

The challenge is to do it in a way that doesn't hurt future economic growth and hurt investment in the United States.

It would be catastrophic to the United States. Default by the United States would precipitate a crisis worse than the one we just went throu...