Reply #4: "Democrats are not going to vote to increase this debt," Reid said.

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"Senate faces tough vote on raising debt limit

By Richard Cowan
Reuters
Friday, March 3, 2006; 1:01 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A nasty budget fight is brewing in Congress as Senate Democrats and some conservative Republicans said on Friday that they will not support efforts this month to increase U.S. borrowing authority, a move needed to avoid a government default.

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In a speech on the Senate floor, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid put all 55 Senate Republicans on notice that they "are going to have to belly up to the bar and vote to increase the debt," saying it was Republican budgets that have created the massive deficit spending requiring more federal borrowing.

"Democrats are not going to vote to increase this debt," Reid said.

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House Democrats also have warned that they would oppose a debt limit increase without also putting into place a plan to eventually balance a federal budget that could see a deficit of around $400 billion this year."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/03/AR2006030300952.html