Lujan & Heinrich: Put That on Our CHARGE CARD

Martin Heinrich

Ben Ray Lujan

Bloomberg - Republicans are holding to their demand that spending cuts exceed an increase in the government’s legal debt limit, he said. The meeting followed the House’s 318-97 vote yesterday defeating a measure that would have raised the $14.3 trillion debt limit by $2.4 trillion without spending reductions.  Republicans scheduled the vote to drive home their position that a debt-limit increase without what Boehner called “major spending cuts” is unacceptable. Democrats derided the vote as political theater. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Lujan & Heinrich: Put That on Our CHARGE CARD