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Bob Goodlatte: “The answer is, yes, it requires a supermajority to raise the debt limit and a supermajority to not balance the budget…”

On the recordNovember 17, 2011
The answer is, yes, it requires a supermajority to raise the debt limit and a supermajority to not balance the budget, which would be an unusual thing in the future because in the last 50 years, it's only been balanced six times.
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Bob Goodlatte
Republican · Virginia
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Nov 17, 2011

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