I hope the committee will explore how proxy voting, now shown to be effective and constitutional, can be incorporated into the House's work.
I want to thank this committee, again, and the chairman and all the members, for the work that you do.
It has been an honor working closely with you in this effort, and I hope we can continue to find ways to ensure that the...
It would vest in the Treasury secretary the authority to raise the debt ceiling while still reserving to Congress the au...
I wish I shared that 100 percent certainty. One of the reasons why I started working on this seven years ago was because...
the one justification for keeping the debt ceiling... is that it is an effective extortion measure.
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 Budg...
the debt ceiling become a political cudgel rather than some sort of useful policy tool.
having the debt ceiling gives--has already taken the power of the purse away from us.