1 House Republicans have tied an increase in the debt limit to a balanced-budget agreement.

2 This creates room for new borrowing under the debt limit and allows the Treasury to sell fresh securities and raise needed cash.

3 Q What is the debt limit?

4 The first is the $12.1 trillion federal debt limit, which will soon be reached unless Congress agrees to lift it.

5 Means that the proactive fiscal deficit and debt limit expansion.

6 Since the debt limit is “must pass” legislation, it often becomes a vehicle for extraneous measures that would be vetoed by the president if presented to him as a stand-alone bill.

7 Once he caves, members said, the debt limit will be raised and the credit scare will end.

8 We’ve got guys who will not approve the debt limit extension unless we give ’em a piece of meat, real meat,’ ” meaning spending cuts.

9 The Treasury postpones a key sale of notes, citing Congressional inaction on lifting the debt limit.

10 The Treasury is required to invest assets of those trust funds in government securities, which count against the debt limit.

11 Yet right now it is possible to raise the debt limit with a simple majority vote in both houses.

12 There may once have been value in forcing Congress to occasionally focus on the debt and think about its implications before raising the debt limit.

13 It should be on guard for attempts to sneak parts of it into the debt limit talks.

14 Investors are seeking alternatives to United States Treasury bonds as worries escalate that lawmakers will fail to rein in the deficit and raise the federal debt limit in the coming days.

15 Now, though, the same firms are wielding immense power as the deadline for raising the federal debt limit looms.

16 The White House and Democrats in Congress will urge passage of a “clean” debt limit increase, without amendments, though they acknowledge that cannot pass in the Republican-controlled House.

17 He is watching the U.S. political debate over the debt limit.

18 It said the review "is prompted by the possibility that the debt limit will not be raised in time to prevent a missed payment of interest or principal on outstanding bonds and notes."

19 What about the international shockwaves of a GOP push not to raise the debt limit?

20 The administration has signaled it would veto the Smith bill. It should be on guard for attempts to sneak parts of it into the debt limit talks.

21 Obama also noted that a 6-month debt cap extension won't solve the problem and threatened to veto any of the current temporary debt limit proposals.

22 And since nobody, not even the hawkiest of deficit hawks, thinks the budget can be balanced immediately, the debt limit must be raised to avoid a government shutdown.

23 The analysis is being circulated on Capitol Hill by supporters of raising the debt limit.

24 Polls suggest a large percentage of Americans oppose raising the debt limit.

25 If they cannot cut the spending and be able to increase the debt limit, the problem can become the default, which will lead to a higher pricing in gold, " he said.

26 So it was that Mr. Obama, as a Democratic senator in 2006, voted against a Bush administration request to raise the debt limit; it passed with mostly Republican votes.

27 Some years ago, the House of Representatives established a sort of automatic mechanism for raising the debt limit and has voted to raise it to $13,000bn.

28 Republican supporters of the conservative Tea Party movement will worry that the cuts can't be enforced while some don't think the debt limit should be raised at all.

29 But with Congress aiming to be on vacation all but the first week of August, lawmakers are unlikely to leave the debt limit fight hanging well into that month.

30 After the bill's latest alteration, any future increases in the debt limit would be contingent on Congress approving the constitutional amendment and sending it to the states for ratification.

31 The fund's economists argue that a universal debt limit does not make sense.

32 The letter said that if the federal debt limit does not solve the problem, will have "serious consequences."

33 Urging deep cuts in federal spending, GOP lawmakers are threatening to oppose an increase in the federal debt limit, inviting what Geithner warns would be a devastating default by the government.

34 Mr. Baker, long known as a deal-maker, said Republicans were right to say, “O. K. , we'll increase the debt limit, Democrats, if you will enact enforceable spending restraint.