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Raise the Debt Ceiling

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 23, 2021
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. WELCH. Mr. Speaker, the question before this Congress will be whether we do our duty and raise the debt ceiling. The question of the debt ceiling is not about authorizing new spending. It is about paying our bills, and it is no different than if a family decided it was sick of paying the mortgage and stiffed the bank. Enormous collateral damage occurs to our economy and to our reputation.

What is so dangerous about what is starting to happen in this Congress is that one side is embracing tactics, shutting down government, defaulting on our debt, that have the likelihood of collateral damage to our reputation, our economy, to our jobs and our prosperity. These tactics, shutting down government, defaulting on paying our bills, much of which have been run up by the Trump administration, must be renounced.

Raise the debt ceiling. Pay our bills. Do our duty.

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