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Charles W. Stenholm: “I ask my friend, the gentleman from Texas, for clarification to see if I understood what I think I heard him say, that…”

On the recordJune 21, 2002
I ask my friend, the gentleman from Texas, for clarification to see if I understood what I think I heard him say, that he meant to say regarding the debt ceiling: that we do have a crisis that has been ascertained by the Secretary of the Treasury; that June 28 seems to be the last day that they can juggle the books without us doing what we are supposed to do, and that is, raise the debt ceiling, June 28. I believe I heard the gentleman say that it would be his hope that he could add it to the supplemental so that there would not be an up-and-down clean vote on it; but if that were not able to be done, then he would entertain the possibility of bringing the Senate clean bill of $450 billion to the floor for an up-and-down vote.
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Discussing the debt ceiling and potential legislative actions related to it.

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