WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- More than a dozen Democratic senators have said they would refuse to raise the U.S. debt ceiling without formation of a committee to study debt reduction.
"The longer you wait, the more you diddle, the more draconian the solutions are going to have to be. That's just a mathematical certainty," said Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., one of 13 Democrats who said he would refuse to vote for a measure to raise the debt ceiling by nearly $1 trillion, The Washington Post reported Monday.