- Nov 30, 2009
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U.S. House Defeats Debt Ceiling Measure
Republicans who control the House last week announced the vote as a way to demonstrate that lawmakers don’t support extending the $14.3 trillion debt limit without an agreement with President Barack Obama’s administration on significant spending cuts to curb government spending.
The vote on the debt-limit increase was 97 in favor, all Democrats, and 318 opposed -- 236 Republicans and 82 Democrats. Support for the increase not only failed to win a simple majority; it fell 180 votes short of the two-thirds vote needed for passage under the streamlined procedures Republicans used to bring the measure to the floor.
Republicans who control the House last week announced the vote as a way to demonstrate that lawmakers don’t support extending the $14.3 trillion debt limit without an agreement with President Barack Obama’s administration on significant spending cuts to curb government spending.
The vote on the debt-limit increase was 97 in favor, all Democrats, and 318 opposed -- 236 Republicans and 82 Democrats. Support for the increase not only failed to win a simple majority; it fell 180 votes short of the two-thirds vote needed for passage under the streamlined procedures Republicans used to bring the measure to the floor.
