Sentences with phrase «debt ceiling bills»

They insist that spending and debt ceiling bills are vital in their own right and should not come with conditions attached.

Gibson and Rep. Tom Reed were the only two Republicans to vote «no» on the debt ceiling bill, bucking House Speaker John Boehner in the process.

Washington (CNN)- Democrats who lead the Senate are expected this week to take up a debt ceiling bill that would not include any policy changes or spending cuts demanded by Republicans, according to a Senate Democratic leadership aide.

Washington (CNN)- The Senate's Democratic leadership is expected to offer a debt ceiling bill that would not include any of the policy changes or spending cuts demanded by Republicans, a Senate Democratic leadership aide told CNN.

Senate Majority Leader Reid could file the so - called «clean» debt ceiling bill as early as Monday, the aide said.

Given that the entire 55 - member Democratic caucus is expected to support the clean debt ceiling bill, that means five Republicans would need to join with Democrats to advance the bill to passage.

Not exact matches

And somewhere between mid-October and mid-November the Treasury will run out of stop - gap measures to keep paying the government's bills and the debt ceiling will have to be raised.

We've seen that before: The bill that averted a debt - ceiling crisis earlier this year — by temporarily suspending the borrowing limit — would have frozen Congressional pay if the House or Senate had failed to pass a budget by April 15 (lawmakers would have received their salaries anyway at the end of the current legislature).

Such an outcome would be undesirable for the world's investors, however, which explains why ratings agency Standard & Poor's moved to downgrade U.S. treasury bills to AA + after the debt - ceiling deal had been reached.

The idea of minting a trillion - dollar coin has picked up as an option that would allow the Treasury to temporarily print money to pay the country's bills and work around the debt ceiling.

What Walden is suggesting is not quite the issue — Nadler and others in the media have proposed issuing the coin to continue paying the nation's bills in the case that the debt ceiling is not raised.

The bill's passage also potentially complicates Treasury issuance relative to the debt ceiling, as lower tax receipts under the new tax plan could cause Treasury to run out of extraordinary measures earlier than originally thought.

With last - minute support from Maryland's Republicans, the House of Representatives narrowly approved a bill Friday to raise the nation's debt ceiling, but the high - stakes hunt for a bipartisan plan that could pass both chambers of Congress was set to...

Then the Senate could decide to pass the same bill, or attach an increase in the debt ceiling to the legislation.

Within 48 hours the president had signed into law a bill that provides $ 15 billion in hurricane funding, a bill that delays the potential government shut down at the end of this month to December 8th and a bill that pushes the debt ceiling fight which is perhaps the most market moving event that comes out of Washington off until sometime in 2018.

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President Donald Trump blamed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan (on Twitter) for creating «a mess» by not including the debt ceiling legislation in a veterans bill.

Today the House passed the bill increasing the debt ceiling by a vote of 285 - 144.

Obama said he wouldn't negotiate attachments to an increase in the nation's debt ceiling, but would accept a smaller bill.

The spectacle of the debt ceiling debate in Washington did little to improve the national economy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a bill singing ceremony this afternoon.

But if the debt ceiling isn't raised, then the federal government is essentially stuck unable to pay its bills because it can't borrow more money.

In fact, she was the only New York Republican to vote against the compromised bill to raise the debt ceiling.

(CNN)- Some Senate Democrats were concerned and frustrated last year about outgoing White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley's handling of the high - stakes negotiations with Republicans over government funding, the debt ceiling and job creation, according to a senior Democratic aide on Capitol Hill.

On August 2, President Obama signed the bill debt ceiling that passed Congress and the Senate and the U.S. stock market fell almost 300 points.

Republicans added a total of 38 riders to the Bill designed to provide security for the US» debt ceiling.