[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11368]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            THE DEBT CEILING

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, for the benefit of Senators and everyone 
within the sound of my voice, we are doing our very best, recognizing 
we have 13 days left until the debt ceiling comes to be, to do 
something about it, that we would not default on our debt. It would be 
cataclysmic to our country and the world. We have not done a lot on the 
floor, but there are a lot of people working in a lot of different ways 
to arrive at a way to stop the country from defaulting on the debt.
  Many Democrats, many Republicans are working toward that end. But we 
need a path forward, and we think we have one, but it is certainly not 
completed yet. This is a bicameral legislature, and we have another 
meeting at the White House tomorrow. We are doing our very utmost to do 
this as well as we can. There is no easy solution.

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