Source:  PRESS RELEASE, 6/1/11
 

Yesterday U.S. Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) and his fellow House Republicans voted unanimously against the $2.4 trillion debt ceiling increase proposed by President Barack Obama.  The measure, which failed by a vote of 318-97, did not include spending reductions and would have raised the current $14.4 trillion debt limit to a staggering $16.7 trillion.  

“We are a debtor nation and it is ruining our country,” said Jones.  “Unless the runaway, reckless spending in Washington is stopped, there is no hope for the economic recovery and job creation that America so desperately needs.”