The New York State Legislature renewed rent regulation laws last year, increasing the ceiling for a regulated apartment from $2,000 to $2,500 per month.
They could then vote against increasing the ceiling with the comfort of knowing it will rise anyway.
By a vote of 68 to 29, the Senate approved a measure that would increase the ceiling on the national debt by $450 billion, to $6.4 trillion.
They had already dug down to increase the ceiling height of the garden-level kitchen and the basement playroom below that.
Or maybe it's telling that in Wake County, a proposal to increase the ceiling for low-income students from 40percentto50percentcent died a swift death last fall after concerted protest.
Congressional Republicans are again threatening not to increase the ceiling on the amount of federal government debt that can be issued.
A new law that came into effect this week doubles the maximum jail sentence for fraud, to ten years, and increases the ceiling on fines to ¥700m ($6m).
In a small short-term boost, it is understood that the European Central Bank ECB has agreed to increase the ceiling on emergency lending assistance to Greek banks by €1.2bn to €73.2bn (£59bn).
A9 Congo Plan Is Supported The United States, France and Britain have united behind a French draft resolution that would impose an arms embargo in eastern Congo, increase the ceiling on United Nations peacekeepers there and strengthen their military mandate, diplomats said.
