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i'll ask about red hot democrats. stay here and hear how it plays out. i'm wolf blitzer here in "the situation room." we've been expecting the house to vote on raising the debt limit. but it has not happened yet. the debt deadline is looming larger than ever. the deal would raise the debt limit $900 billion in the short term and green light spending cuts of roughly the same amount over ten years. offset dollar for dollar by more spending cuts. there's a lot of huge ifs involved in making all of that happen. let's go to capitol hill. kate baldwin is standing by. what are we toll abo...

Faa too. but this didn't just start. things like this don't just all of a sudden, there's an epidemic of controllers falling asleep. it's a little disconcerting to wonder what else is going on out there that hasn't been addressed? >> that's why the administrator and the head of the controller's union are traveling the country this week. started in atlanta today. they'll be all over the country over the next week talking to controllers, trying to find out if there is something systemic about this, trying to find out about workplace rules, if extending the rest one hour which is what we've done ...

Recommendation really from a fatigue study that we just are releasing and that study says that pilots should actually have nine hours and we thought that controllers should, too. but look. if that's not enough hours, and that's really one of the reasons that the administrator and the president of the controllers union are traveling the country starting in your bailiwick today, in atlanta, talking to controllers about workplace rules, about more rest. and if it needs to be more, obviously we'll take that in consideration. we think nine hours is probably the right amount of rest. but if it's not...

That's really one of the reasons that the administrator and the president of the controllers union are traveling the country starting in your bailiwick today, in atlanta, talking to controllers about workplace rules, about more rest. and if it needs to be more obviously we'll take that into conversation. we think nine hours is probably the right amount of rest. but if it's not, we'll do better. >> we'll have much more on lahood's visit and the new rules for controllers at the top of the hour with cnn homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve. that's coming up. why is it against the law ...

>> that study says that pilots should actually have nine hours and we thought the controllers should, too. but look, if that's not enough hours, and that's really one of the reasons that the president of the controllers union are traveling the country starting in your bailey wick today in atlanta talking about workplace rules and about more rest and if it needs to be more, then we'll take that into consideration. we think nine hours is probably the right amount of rest but if it's not, we'll do better. >> how do you actually hold those air traffic controllers accountable? let's say they have a...