Tonight, I voted against a swampy maneuver that allows the Democrats to circumvent the filibuster in the Senate in order to raise the debt limit - something they already have the power to do using reconciliation, the process they’re already using for #BuildBackBroke
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Earlier this year, I led over 100 of my colleagues in the House in the commitment against voting for a debt limit increase.
Our GOP colleagues in the Senate signed a similar commitment, giving the Democrats several months’ notice that they would need to do this on their own.
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Instead of working ahead to avoid a default on our debts, Democrats waited until the last minute and are trying to rewrite the rules of the Senate instead of using the tools already at their disposal, like the reconciliation process.
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The American people don’t trust these swampy maneuvers; they see through the false statements from Democrats who control the White House and both chambers of Congress yet blame their gridlock on Republicans.
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All this could have been avoided had written a budget this spring. Not only did she fail to draft a budget, she instructed her Budget Committee Chairman not to even attempt it.
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Every crisis in our nation’s capital can be traced back to the budget.
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Are you talking about your “No” vote on the Health Care Provider Protection Act?
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