[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2663 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2663

To amend title 31, United States Code, to increase the statutory limit 
                          on the public debt.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2011

Mr. Welch (for himself, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Berman, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, 
 Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Ms. Brown of Florida, Mr. 
   Butterfield, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Carnahan, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. 
 Clarke of Michigan, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Clyburn, 
Mr. Cohen, Mr. Connolly of Virginia, Mr. Costa, Mr. Critz, Mr. Crowley, 
   Mr. Cummings, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Deutch, Mr. 
 Dicks, Mr. Dingell, Mr. Doggett, Mr. Doyle, Ms. Edwards, Mr. Ellison, 
Mr. Farr, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Ms. Fudge, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Al 
Green of Texas, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Hahn, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. Higgins, Mr. 
  Himes, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Holden, Mr. Holt, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Jackson of 
Illinois, Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, 
 Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. 
 Larsen of Washington, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lewis of 
   Georgia, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Lynch, Ms. McCollum, Mr. McDermott, Mr. 
 McGovern, Mr. Meeks, Ms. Moore, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Neal, Mr. Olver, Mr. 
Pascrell, Mr. Perlmutter, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Mr. Rahall, Mr. 
 Rangel, Mr. Reyes, Mr. Richmond, Mr. Rothman of New Jersey, Mr. Rush, 
 Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Ms. Linda T. Sanchez of California, Ms. Schakowsky, 
  Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Ms. Sewell, Mr. 
Sires, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Smith of Washington, Ms. Speier, Ms. Sutton, 
Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Walz of Minnesota, Mr. Watt, Mr. Waxman, Ms. Wilson 
  of Florida, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Yarmuth, Mr. Becerra, Mr. Thompson of 
 California, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Engel, Ms. Pingree of Maine, Ms. Bass of 
 California, Ms. Richardson, Ms. Eshoo, Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California, 
Mr. Towns, Mr. Ackerman, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Conyers, and 
  Mr. Murphy of Connecticut) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 31, United States Code, to increase the statutory limit 
                          on the public debt.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``America Pays Its Bills Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN STATUTORY LIMIT ON THE PUBLIC DEBT.

    Subsection (b) of section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended by striking out the dollar limitation contained in such 
subsection and inserting in lieu thereof ``$16,700,000,000,000''.
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