Bill Foster: “I urge the leadership of this committee to craft a budget that replaces the mindless cuts of the sequester with sensible…”

This made the discharge petition much more effective at its intended purpose, which is sort of to operate as a safety valve against, you know, the Speaker's rather dictatorial power.

I think we should consider adopting this in the coming session of Congress, at least on a temporary basis.

Do you remember with AIG, the real problem with AIG falling into bankruptcy is that it would immediately put a bazillion of the European banks into violation of their capital requirements, which was major contagion that----

The good news is that macroeconomic policy is working as designed.