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I wonder how long House Republicans are going to continue playing ideological games with the economy. Moody’s Investors Service announced yesterday that it might begin a review to downgrade our government’s credit rating. This follows a failed House vote on raising the debt ceiling with not one Republican voting in favor of the increase.

Leading economists from across the political spectrum agree that downgrading our credit rating would increase our borrowing costs and actually increase the deficit. Dilly-dallying with the debt ceiling is clearly the wrong direction for our country.

I voted to increase the debt ceili! ng because it’s time to focus on job creation and deficit reduction in a serious way. Our country is slowly pulling itself out of the Great Recession, but we’re still leaving millions of unemployed Americans behind. 

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