debt limit

Why Biden Can’t Use the 14th Amendment to Raise the Debt Ceiling 0
- May 16, 2023
Not raising the debt limit doesn’t cause default; it just forces the federal government to run a balanced budget.
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Why We Must Act Now To Use the Constitution’s Amendment Process to Restore Fiscal Sanity 0
- April 27, 2013
Following is an address I gave in Orlando Florida on April 26, 2013 on the need to use the Constitution’s Convention-Amendment Process to rein in Congress: My initial background was in the private sector, but I served many years in academia. I spent much of that time teaching constitutional law and constitutional history to aspiring
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Can the President Raise the Debt Limit Unilaterally? Hell no! — Part II 0
- January 11, 2013
The claim—partly silly, partly dangerous—that President Obama may raise the debt limit unilaterally without the approval of Congress is again being raised. I addressed it previously here. Now it has been further debunked in a Wall Street Journal op-ed authored by David B. Rivkin and Lee A. Casey. Under the Constitution, only Congress may incur
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More Constitutional Baby Babble—this time at Vanity Fair 0
- December 4, 2011
Vanity Fair’s sophisticated approach to rescuing a drowning man is this: Lecture him about how we all need plenty of water. The tony mag’s new attack on the Tea Party is entitled “Debt and Dumb.” But the attack shows the authors and editors at VF to be the ones either deaf or dumb: Either deaf
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Can the President Raise the Debt Limit Unilaterally? Hell no!0
- July 27, 2011
Some people are claiming that if Congress fails to raise the debt limit, the President can raise it himself unilaterally. The claim is not only wrong, but far scarier for America’s future than a default would be. Typical of those arguing this way is Bruce Bartlett, the formerly conservative economist who in recent years has
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