This Committee will work without the looming specter of default, ensuring time to carefully consider essential reforms.
The debt deal announced today is a victory for bipartisan compromise, for the economy and for the American people.
The deal includes a mechanism to ensure additional deficit reduction, consistent with the economic recovery.
This deal removes the specter of default, providing important certainty to our economy at a fragile moment.
We need to reach a compromise by Tuesday so that our country will have the ability to pay its bills on time.
The time for putting party first is over.
The full faith and credit of the United States be preserved.
Any solution to avoid default must be bipartisan.
The bill would increase the debt ceiling to a level that will be sufficient for the Nation to meet its obligations throu...
Today I'd like to speak with you about the ongoing and urgent efforts to avoid a first-ever default and get our fiscal h...
It is imperative that the United States not default on the Nation's obligations.