Claim: "Thirty-four of the last 44  have been for less than a year. So, this notion that short-term is somehow the exception, it's actually the rule."
Fact-check: Sen. Rob Portman says most debt-ceiling increases have been short-term solutions
Verdict: true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Stephen Koff
Date published: 2011-07-27T00:00:00