Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.

The simple fact is the vast majority of professional sport clubs have some sort of level of debt.

There's no debt limit in the Constitution.

We owe him a great debt for the foundation of our party and for putting himself on the line for two sessions, ... From him we learned that a third party can be taken seriously.