Senate Forced To Call For More Debt

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Today the Senate voted to increase the national debt ceiling to nearly $9,000,000,000,000 (that’s nine trillion to you and me). The $781 billion increase is the fourth since President Bush took office, and was necessary to narrowly avert what would have been the first default ever on United States Treasury notes. Dissent within the Republican party continues to grow, with some GOP lawmakers furious that the party's leaders are officially calling for more debt, thereby giving Democrats a prime opportunity to highlight the president's fiscally irresponsible policies .