House Dem Opposition Rises Against McConnell Fallback Plan

[Purveyor]

House Democratic leaders are attacking Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) debt-ceiling fallback plan, characterizing it as a political ruse intended to scapegoat Democrats and taint them at the polls.

“I’m not a fan of the McConnell proposal,” Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said Tuesday during a press briefing in the Capitol. “It’s designed to protect mostly Republican members of Congress from taking responsibility for votes that they’ve already made.”

Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and McConnell, however, are continuing to hold talks on the proposal, which has now become the most likely option for raising the debt limit before Treasury’s Aug. 2 deadline.

McConnell last week floated the proposal empowering President Obama to lift the debt ceiling — without congressional approval — on three occasions over the next year and a half.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/172435-house-dem-opposition-rises-against-mcconnell

[damntexdem]

1. Hey, it's better than the crime-gang-of-six Senate plan.

And it's something the Democrats SHOULD be willing to campaign on.