this is really a system that has had decades of neglect and fallen behind. what we re doing now is getting a lot of things done to get this system back on path to modernize the system, the make it a system we all want for our veterans. we are getting this done. this is our fifth major piece of legislation we signed yesterday getting done in bipartisan support. i full good about where we re headed shannon: there has been a lot of progress on this front. the president tweeting out quite a bit this morning saying i requested that mitch m and paul r tie the debt ceiling legislation into the popular va bill which just passed. they didn t do it. now we have a big deal with dems holding them up on debt ceiling approval. could have been so easy. now a mess. your response. i do think we re seeing when it comes to veteran issues, this is something that everybody agrees upon. both democrats and republicans
more quickly than expected. protecting the full faith and credit of the united states is the responsibility of congress. i respectfully urge congress to provide certainty and stability to the economy and financial markets by acting to raise the debt limit before february 7th. boehner had previously thought that he might have until march or at least well past valentine s day to assemble a goodie bag full of republican demands. remember, this is a late christmas, after all. conservatives have been waiting for this all winter long. the debt ceiling legislation is a time that brings us all together and gets the president s attention. we don t want nothing out of this debt limit. we re going to decide what it is we can accomplish out of this debt limit fight. we don t want nothing. which is to say we want something. and if we don t get something we re going to breach the debt limit. but shh. don t tell the american public that. as for speaker boehner, the response from his office wa
resolve the issue of over a million americans losing their unemployment assistance. instead, it is because the senate, which has suddenly overtaken the house in terms of dysfunction, may remain in session through the holidays, fighting over a slate of president obama s nominees. and when they return in january, republicans plan to turn the debt ceiling extension into another battlefield. every time the president asks us to raise the debt ceiling is a good time to try to achieve something important for the country. the debt ceiling legislation is a time that brings us all together and gets the president s attention. i can t imagine it being done clean. we ll have to see what the house insists on adding to it as a condition for passing it. brings us all together in fractious fighting. paul ryan has one idea, the keystone pipeline. so does ron johnson. tax reform and, quote, freedom in health care.
something important to the country. debt ceiling legislation is a time that brings us together and gets the president s attention. i can t imagine it being done we ll have to see on what the house adds to it as a condition. shutdown is bad enough for america but playing with the debt ceiling is really, really bad stuff. are they really talking about doing more hostage taking around that or setting up the radio right and base and saying, we re still willing to do this stuff, and then actually they ll do the right thing? i think this is posturing and we ve seen this from the last two debt ceiling fights we ve had, one around a year ago and one around the time of the shutdown. the question is, how do you define something. a year ago something was an agreement that the senate had to pass a budget. it could be any budget, didn t have to be reconciled or cut government spending. all that had to happen was the senate passed a budget and that
it. under republican presidents and democratic presidents. and i think we re going to get it done. because it s an overwhelming story to tell. and we re going to bring the faces right to the american people. i want to play this clip, senator. of minority leader, mitch mcconnell, today, making threats about the debt ceiling. here it is. okay. i doubt if the house or for that matter, the senate, is willing to give the president a clean debt ceiling increase. every time the president asks us to raise the debt ceiling, it s a good time to try to achieve something important for the country. the debt ceiling legislation is a time that brings us all together, and gets the president s attention, which with this president, particularly when it comes to reducing spending, has been a bit of a challenge. so it s a long way of saying i can t imagine being done clean. can t imagine it being done clean. well, he s in for a big shock. because the fact is, you don t get paid a ransom for doin