The parties are trying to reach consensus on the tax bills, and are talking of holding an extraordinary session of Congress in June to discuss them.
That constraint would ensure that the national debt does not rise as a share of national income unless an extraordinary majority in Congress deems that it should.
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The individual mandate, by contrast, vests Congress with the extraordinary ability to create the necessary predicate to the exercise of an enumerated power and draw within its regulatory scope those who would otherwise be outside of it.
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That's why the Republicans in Congress have resorted to extraordinary blackmail tactics to try to ram their program through.
But to facilitate the extraordinary demands of war finance, Congress set a statutory debt limit up to which the Treasury could borrow as needed without further authorization.
And where we do, having a group like this that can reach a bipartisan consensus and then push Congress to act I think can make an extraordinary difference.
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Even by Congress' high standards of messy brinkmanship, this was an extraordinary night.
At the first congress of the Democratic Left, in March 2011, in an extraordinary move, the then serving Pasok prime minister, George Papandreou, attended.
My extraordinary members of my Cabinet -- we've still got some additional members of Congress who helped lead the charge on this.
This event brings together an extraordinary array of senior Executive Branch officials (military and civilian), leading members of Congress, diplomats, captains of industry and top journalists for a relatively intimate and extremely memorable black-tie dinner and celebration.
And I want to indicate that the frequency of these meetings is an indication of the extraordinary bonds between our two countries, as is the opportunity for the Prime Minister to address Congress during his visit here.
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So my message to Congress is thank you and congratulations on authorizing Ex-Im Bank to continue on its extraordinary mission.
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