Steny Hoyer actually said...

"Congress has the authority to lift the debt ceiling to safeguard the full faith and credit of the United States and the responsibility to do so."

"America is one of the few countries in the world that has a debt limit and none of them go through the crises that we do."

"They know that they can't purchase as many goods today as what they could a year ago and it is because of inflation."

"Over the years, Democrats, Republicans, labor unions, business leaders, and economists have endorsed the notion that at the end of the day default should not be an option."