What did John Boehner predict about the economy in October 2013?
John Boehner, Speaker of the House (R-OH) ·
We're not going to pass a clean debt limit increase. I told the president, there's no way we're going to pass one. The votes are not in the House to pass a clean debt limit.
Clean debt-limit bill passed 221-201
Boehner said the House would not pass a clean debt limit increase. In February 2014 it passed one, 221 to 201, with no other policy conditions.
On Feb. 11, 2014 the House passed S. 540, the Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act, 221-201 (House Clerk roll call 61). Signed Feb. 15, 2014 as Public Law 113-83, it suspended the debt limit through March 15, 2015 and contained only that suspension and related Treasury borrowing rules, with no other policy conditions (govinfo.gov).
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- Interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week during the October 2013 government shutdown.