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lawhawk1/14/2013 7:27:37 am PST

re: #221 Obdicut

Budget process - bills passed by Congress appropriate funds to be expended.
Debt limit - caps spending by government.

The GOP is using the latter as a way to claw back on the former, even though the budget process already appropriated the funds.

And while the dollar cost of the debt has soared under President Obama, as the percentage of GNP it has fallen. Moreover, the President has actually held the line on spending - moreso than President Bush did (in part due to cutbacks on war spending).