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| https://welch.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/welch-continues-lead-debt-ceiling-demands-return-fiscal-responsibility | Welch Continues to Lead on Debt Ceiling, Demands Return to Fiscal Responsibility | 2015-10-21 | 2015 | 2015-10 | Democrat | House | VT | Peter Welch | W000800 | welch.house.gov | legacy | WASHINGTONRep. Peter Welch (D-VT), the leader of House efforts to prevent a default on America's obligations, today spoke on the House floor in advance of a looming November 3rd deadline to raise the debt ceiling. Mr. Speaker, let's be clear. Raising the debt ceiling has nothing to do with increasing government spending, it only has to do with whether America will pay its bills for expenses already incurred, Congressman Welch said. A confident nation keeps its word. A confident nation pays its billsnot some of them, it pays all of them. Running from our creditors and picking and choosing who to pay among them is as fiscally reckless as it is dishonorable. This new theory that America can actually consider it feasible as an option to default is extremely dangerous and very costly.We cannot now and we cannot ever default on our obligations and our commitment to the American taxpayer to be fiscally responsible by paying our bills. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |