Steny Hoyer actually said...

having the debt ceiling gives--has already taken the power of the purse away from us.

Given recent history, it is clear to me that the best way to do so is to eliminate the debt limit entirely.

Congress has the authority to lift the debt ceiling to safeguard the full faith and credit of the United States and the responsibility to do...

America is one of the few countries in the world that has a debt limit and none of them go through the crises that we do.