Not incidentally, several months ago the White House considered proposing that the ceiling be lifted to $180,000.
"And then it would depend how long this went before the ceiling was lifted.
Twenty-six House Democrats planned to attend a bipartisan event on Thursday morning with the group No Labels, calling for negotiations to start immediately, a challenge to the president and to Democratic leaders who say they will not negotiate until the government reopens and the debt ceiling is lifted.
(That $50 ceiling is lifted after 60 days).
In the end, the wage ceiling was lifted and thousands more children enrolled, and Mr. Pataki later appeared in television advertisements, surrounded by children, boasting about the program.
After the debt ceiling was lifted, Standard & Poor's downgraded the nation's credit, the stock market took a wild dip and polls demonstrated that voters have lost patience with Washington.
The ceiling on deposit rates and the floor under lending rates guarantee banks a fat margin, preventing competition for deposits and allowing big banks to maintain vast pools of money cheaply.If the deposit ceiling were lifted, small banks would offer juicier rates to take market share from incumbents.
If the cap or ceiling were lifted, the amount of money raised would be 0.6 percent of G.D.P., the exact amount of income needed to get Social Security out of the red — a striking coincidence.
Gene Smith, the athletic director at Ohio State University, has said that if the N.C.A.A. pay ceiling were lifted and he were pushed to pay basketball and football student-athletes more than their full-ride scholarship packages, he would not expect to maintain the same number of sports.
A government-appointed task force recommended last year that the foreign ownership ceiling be lifted, a move that would free AT&T to begin buying shares, but the cabinet in Ottawa has yet to act.
That ceiling was lifted, however, in return for a pledge by Repsol YPF of Spain, the Royal Dutch/Shell Group and other producers to assure an adequate fuel supply at current prices throughout the coming winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
