The New York Times

March 1, 2002, Friday, Late Edition - Final

SECTION: Section A; Page 18; Column 5; National Desk

National Briefing Washington: G.O.P. Strategy On Debt Ceiling

By Richard W. Stevenson (NYT)

Republican leaders in the House told the Bush administration that they did not have enough votes to increase the legal limit on the national debt and urged the White House to attach the measure to another piece of popular legislation, possibly a supplemental military appropriations bill. The administration has asked Congress to raise the debt limit by $750 billion, to $6.7 trillion, by the end of March, when the government is likely to breach the limit.

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