Editorial: It's Up to the Senate | Irish Sun

Editorial: It's Up to the Senate

International Herald Tribune Friday 29th July, 2011

It was hard to imagine that the House bill to raise the debt limit, and slash and burn the economy, could get any worse. But on Friday it did.

The bill, which narrowly passed the House with 218 Republican votes and none from Democrats, would allow the government to keep borrowing only until November or December and then require both the Senate and the House to pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution before the limit could be raised again.

That's right, in a bid to win over his recalcitrant caucus, Speaker John Boehner agreed to go through all of this again in just a few months - and then hold the country hostage to passing an amendment that will never get the two-thirds of each chamber that it would need.

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