Debt Ceiling Reform Act
Summary
Debt Ceiling Reform Act This bill authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to increase the public debt limit. Under current law, the debt limit restricts the amount of funds that the Department of the Treasury may borrow to fund the federal government.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Sep 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Sep 29, 2021
Last action Sep 29, 2021
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Total actions
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Committee
1
Sep 29, 2021
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
lower
Sep 29, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 22 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Brendan F. Boyle
DDemocratic
Co
Adriano Espaillat
DDemocratic
Co
Bill Foster
DDemocratic
Co
Bonnie Watson Coleman
DDemocratic
Co
C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger
DDemocratic
Co
Danny K. Davis
DDemocratic
Co
Donald Norcross
DDemocratic
Co
Donald S. Beyer, Jr.
DDemocratic
Co
Dwight Evans
DDemocratic
Co
Earl Blumenauer
DDemocratic
Co
Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
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