Raising the debt ceiling ensures that we will not be a deadbeat nation in the eyes of the world, nor in the eyes of our own citizenry. Not long ago, we passed an omnibus spending bill, incidentally, because of a breakdown in the regular order here. the idea that we used to spend according to the 12 to 13 appropriations bills that guided us every year. (03:27–03:34)
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Asserts that an omnibus spending bill was passed due to a breakdown in regular order.
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