I feel that while the 2-week extension is urgent and absolutely indispensable, we ought to do more. And with the conclusion of this part of our debate, I will proceed, when the chairman is ready, to offer an amendment that would in fact extend us to the spring of 1997 when we have a new cycle in American Government and a new fiscal year.
Discussing the need for a longer extension of the public debt limit.
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