Republicans are floating a deal Democrats should jump on.
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The debt-ceiling problem is that, as soon as Republicans won control of the House, their craziest members began to clamor to hold the debt ceiling hostage, and the less crazy Republicans decided to go along with this. Democrats have principled governing reasons not to go along with any such demand.
And, in fact, permitting reform is an absolutely vital policy measure. One of the most important ideas that has developed in recent years — really, just months — is that the obstacle course of legal requirements that prevent or delay the building of almost literally anything is a first-order public-policy problem. The most noxious of these obstacles is the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act, which created a process of environmental review before almost any major new project.
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