[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8546]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 PRESIDENT'S DEBT CEILING REQUEST FAILS

  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Wilson) 
for 5 minutes.
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday night, the 
people's House spoke loud and clear: No debt limit increase without 
real spending cuts to promote job growth. Liberals wanted to increase 
the debt limit by $2.4 trillion with no meaningful reforms. At a time 
when the Federal Government is borrowing 42 cents of every dollar it 
spends, the last thing Americans want to do is raise the government's 
borrowing limit recklessly killing jobs. Liberals in Congress need to 
attach real cuts to any increases they are seeking. That means for 
every dollar proposed to increase the debt limit, there should be one 
dollar in cuts. It makes sense.
  Tuesday night's vote of 318-97-7 shows that the House is 
overwhelmingly in agreement with this debt limit increase being denied. 
Over 80 Democrats joined with the 237 Republicans to vote against the 
President's debt ceiling request. Adding more debt to our economy 
handicaps small business job creation and aggravates our country's debt 
crisis even further. This is a direct risk to senior citizens with the 
value of the dollar being put at risk. It's a threat to students who 
could be faced with overwhelming debt in the future.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops and we will never forget 
September 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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