we haven' the debt roybal on. and that is why we are here today and that is why i believea that week, after months andt hsn months and ounce of partisan bickering, finger-pointing, we have at this moment begun a debate that will allow us in a bipartisan way to increase the debt ceiling which we all know needs to be done and simply isti meeting the obligation of paying for past spending. many of us have been opponents of much of that spending but we recognize that the bill has to be paid. speaker boehner wednesdays aftet we took the oath of d office and the 112 congress, received aden request from the president of the unitedunited s states theres treasury secretary mr. geithner that we increase the debt ceiling. the speaker said ben that he would agree that it is essential for us to increase the debt ceiling but we were not going tt proceed with business as usual. we are not going to continue increasingth the debt without getting to the root cause of the problem. and mr. speaker i've got to tell you, through all of

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