Steny Hoyer actually said...

it is not the rules that are broken, it is the Congress that is broken.

the conclusion that we all reached was it wasn't the rules, it was the people.

I teamed up with Congressman Jodey Arrington in the Bipartisan Policy Center to craft and introduce the Responsible Budgeting Act.

the debt ceiling become a political cudgel rather than some sort of useful policy tool.