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secretary timothy geithner said that failure to raise the limit could cause the united states to default on creditors and use the country s aaa bond rating. republicans and even former president bill clinton, a democrat, have suggested there might not be any immediate catastrophic consequences if our debt ceiling is not raised by august 2nd. this vote will require a two-thirds majority to pass, the house presently has 432 members, not including congresswoman-elect kathy hokle of new york, who s not been sworn in. so the magic number is 288, as i say, around 6:30 eastern time, keep it tuned here, we ll be covering it. martha: we ll look for that on special report , thank you very much. thank you. martha: in the meantime, very disappointing housing numbers out today, raising a lot you in questions about washington s efforts to improve our economy. prices to single family homes in the month of march, down, another 3.6% from last year, and that s driving a lot of new fears about a doubl

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