Only a handful of Republicans spoke in favor of the measure as a mostly empty Senate chamber conducted a brief debate Wednesday evening.Newsflash for Grassley: Being nine trillion dollars in debt really does nothing for me in terms of preserving my faith in the federal government right now. Seriously.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said Bush's tax cuts account for just 30 percent of the debt limit increases required during his presidency. Revenue losses from a recession and new spending to combat terrorism and for the war in Iraq are also responsible, he said.
As for the $781 billion increase in the debt limit, Grassley said: "It is necessary to preserve the full faith and credit of the federal government."
(Props to Rich for the link.)
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So his point is that something that accounts for only a third of the debt isn't work focusing on? Even if that third is the part we can have the most actual control over?
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