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After weeks of wrangling and partisan bickering, congress has agreed on new language to represent 1000 trillion. The number villion will go into dictionaries and textbooks across the country replacing the more boring quadrillion.

Some have questioned why politicians sought to rename this abstractly large number.

"Huge numbers are not just the realm of scientists anymore. Our budgets are quickly climbing towards the villion dollar arena. It sounds silly to talk about a thousand trillion dollars and quadrillion is cumbersome. It doesn't roll off the tongue. When it comes to talking about spending we need easy language to use and remember" said Florida Sen. Rebecca Simonds.

This number probably won't affect the lives of average Americans too much, but it sure has senators and representatives excited. Representative Daniel Harper from California said, "I sure hope to be in the House that gets to pass the first budget of one villion dollars. Someday I envision California being the first state with a budget of a villion."

Overall, politicians from both parties were excited about this achievement. "When you consider that our universe is only 14 billion years old, or 6,000 if you are a republican, villion dollar budgets are a huge milestone" said New York Rep. Ben Cornett.

There were voices of caution amongst the crowd as one representative said, "Creating a milestone like this is only the first step, now we have to get there."

As this bill passed through the Senate and the House, with presidential support, it did have a few hiccups. First, there were allegations that house democrats tried to use their majority presence to name it a demillion. That was defeated through threat of a Republican filibuster, who then attempted to rename it republillion, but, even Republicans didn't like that.

Then senate republicans tried to denote it as a demillion, arguing that it would remind people that democrats love to spend money. Senate democrats then tried to name it a republillion, hoping it would remind people of recent war spending. Eventually a bipartisan contingent came together and fought for a villion.

"This goes beyond partisan politics. This is about the needs of our country and most of us could see eye to eye on that," said Sen. McCoy, who sits on the Ways and Means Committee. "When it comes to spending money the American people deserve a streamlined system."