Lurking right at the center of John Boehner’s “plan” (PDF) to resolve the debt ceiling crisis is this proposal to create a brand new debt ceiling crisis:
So instead of having the House, the Senate, and the president need to agree to a plan here in July, we kick the can to November and this time the plan needs to meet the needs of the House, the Senate, the president and a special cross-chamber committee. How does that help?
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