Dem Senators Don’t Express Regret for Past Votes Against Raising Debt Ceiling

Published April 12, 2011 9:03pm ET



While President Barack Obama apparently regrets his 2006 vote against raising the debt ceiling, some of the other Democratic senators who joined him aren’t as apologetic.

When asked about his 2006 vote against raising the debt ceiling this afternoon, Senate majority leader Harry Reid, speaking to a press gaggle in the Capitol after a meeting of the party caucus, told me to check the answer he gave to Meet the Press when he was asked a similar question. That appearance was in January of this year, and at the time Reid said he couldn’t remember the vote or his reasoning behind it.

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