A key moderate House Republican says that lawmakers are considering a discharge petition — a rare parliamentary procedure to circumvent legislative leaders to force a vote — as an “absolute last resort” to increase the nation’s debt limit, which has now been reached.
The Treasury Department has announced it is taking “extraordinary measures” now that the U.S. has hit the $31.4 trillion debt limit.
Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, cochair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, said last week that both parties were discussing the option of using a discharge petition to address the debt limit.”We’re going to have to marry […]
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