But if I understand the gentleman from California correctly, this provides for a clean increase of $450 billion in the debt ceiling, so all who vote for this are voting to borrow an additional $450 billion clean. It is not going to be added to the military construction. It is a simple take-up of the Senate bill; and if 218 Members vote to borrow that money, it is clean.
Discussing the implications of a proposed increase in the debt ceiling.
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