Political Quotes

“yesterday, Speaker Pelosi and I put in motion the path to pass a continuing resolution that in one fell swoop would accomplish four very important things. It would keep the government open through December 3 of this year and avoid a needless and dangerous shutdown. It would provide emergency funding to help resettle Afghan evacuees; it would approve tens of billions of dollars in disaster aid funding; and it will suspend the debt ceiling until December of 2022, commensurate with the time necessary to cover the debt of the bipartisan $908 billion emergency COVID-relief bill passed at the end of last year. Now, today, I want to spend some time focusing on the last of these items, addressing the debt limit to avoid a first-ever default in American history. Throughout modern history, addressing the debt ceiling has consistently been done on a bipartisan basis. Let me repeat that. Throughout modern history, addressing the debt ceiling has consistently been done on a bipartisan basis. Since 1960, the debt ceiling has been raised approximately 80 times under both Republican and Democratic administrations and under both unified and divided government. So much for the argument by Leader McConnell that when all three branches are controlled by one party, the debt ceiling ought to be their exclusive domain.…”