Pete Sessions: The Debt Ceiling Increase and Harvey Aid Are Separate Items

‘I think the debt limit is going to pass’

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SESSIONS: "No. First of all, let me say this: I think they’re separate items; I think the debt limit is going to have to pass. The sequencing might be something that would be important here. But the opportunity for us to fund the government at the time when there’s so much going on, it would really -- we just need to untie those and make them separate, just like I’m wanting us to have a clean bill when we do handle the effort to -- to -- to fund Harvey. That should be clean. We should not put in years of appropriations marks to be in there. We need to do our work. I think they should be separated."

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