Opinion: Tom Campbell: The House Problem Solvers Caucus can help avoid debt ceiling calamity
The Problem Solvers propose a temporary extension of the debt ceiling to the end of the year. They call for the creation of a bipartisan commission of experts, not congressmembers, who would create a package of long-term budget solutions, to be presented as a whole without allowing for amendment. That is the process that worked in 1983 to avert bankruptcy for Social Security and Medicare.
To approve the Problem Solvers’ compromise today, an unusual procedural step is available to get around the normal practice that bars any vote from getting to the floor without a majority of the majority party’s support. Five of the 31 Republican Problem Solver Congressmembers need to join the Democrats in the House in signing a discharge petition.
This procedure actually worked in 1999, when I was in Congress. Along with other moderate Republicans, and almost all the Democrats, I participated in a discharge petition signed by more than half the members of the House. That compelled Speaker Newt Gingrich to allow a vote on campaign finance reform.
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