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Citing the critical priority of maintaining the full faith and credit of the United States Government, President Bush - in a letter to House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt - appealed to House leaders yesterday to raise the ceiling on the national debt.

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• Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker and the Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives