The maximum amount of the national debt was increased from 8.2 Trillion Dollars to 9 trillion dollars. It was on the cover of cnn.com earlier today. Strangely, the story is now gone from the front page, and is nowhere to be found in the politics section or the U.S. section. I looked around and only found a brief reference in this article: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/16/senate.budget/index.html Where it is only briefly mentioned in a sentence at the end of the article! I say scandal because this is HUGE news, huge enough to make the cover of cnn.com and I find it scandalous that the article gets removed and info on the actual subject of the article is crazy difficult to find. That's just plain wrong.