State and Local Officials Join the Call for Compromise
Posted by Joanna Rosholm on July 29, 2011 at 2:58 PM EDT

We’ve seen switchboards and websites overwhelmed by Americans urging members of Congress to compromise on the debt ceiling, and this morning, the President urged the American people to keep the pressure on, because the price of partisan divergence and defaulting for the first time in our nation’s history is much too high.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/07/ ... compromise