CNN’s Burnett to GOP’s Huelskamp: You’ll Raise Debt Ceiling for a ‘Few Weeks But Not a Couple Months?’

‘It was going to raise the debt ceiling hundreds of billions of dollars with no change in spending’

GOP Rep. Baffles CNN’s Burnett: You’ll Raise Debt Ceiling for a ‘Few Weeks But Not a Couple Months?’ (Mediaite)

CNN’s Erin Burnett couldn’t quite believe what she was hearing Tuesday evening when she interviewed Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) about his decision to vote against a proposed measure from House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that would fund the government through mid-December and raise the debt ceiling until February. When the congressman laid out the criteria he was apparently using to make his decision, she asked in disbelief, “you’re saying you’ll vote for a bill that extends the debt ceiling for a few weeks but not for a couple of months?”

Though he never got a chance to cast his vote after the bill was scrapped, Huelskamp declared that he was going to vote against it because it raised the debt ceiling without imposing any spending cuts. “It’s time for us to get our act together and move forward on facing the fundamental problem of spending too much money,” he said.

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