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title: Oh, did we forget to mention
categories:
- culture
content-tags:
- government
- economy
- usa
---

John Stewart shall not want for material the next four years.

> The Republican-controlled Congress put off dealing with the debt ceiling before adjourning in October, preferring not to force members to vote on the politically sensitive issue of adding to the national debt before the November elections.
>
> Republicans have proposed that the debt ceiling be raised by $690 billion to $8.074 trillion, an amount that would get the government through next September, when the 2005 budget year ends.
> - [Yahoo News][1]

   [1]: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041103/ap_on_go_pr_wh/debt_ceiling_1
