Debt ceiling - Page 11

Six Texas Republican representatives joined with the eleven Democrats in the state’s congressional delegation to vote in favor of the bill to raise the debt ceiling. Nineteen Texas Republicans voted nay in attempting to block the measure. On a national level, 79 Republicans joined with the 187 Democrat members of the House to pass the measure back to the Senate.

Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul dubbed the agreement to raise the debt ceiling “an unholy compromise, to bankrupt the country” and stated, ” wear it as a badge of honor that I miss very, very few votes”

The House Freedom Caucus has officially surrendered to big government by refusing to stand up against a debt-ceiling increase wrapped in the two-year budget deal.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, tells Breitbart News in an exclusive email interview that he thinks members of the House Freedom Caucus should consider withdrawing their previous support for a Speakership bid from Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) unless Ryan can stop the giant budget and debt ceiling deal that’s before Congress.

The current employer of the new chief of staff for Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), is praising the giant spending increasing, debt lifting budget and debt ceiling deal that President Barack Obama, outgoing House Speaker John Boehner, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell negotiated behind closed doors.

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said he would not support a debt ceiling increase that had cuts for Medicare and Social Security on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show.” Sanders was asked a reportedly to be announced

House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is silent and offering no opinion on legislation currently being crafted in Washington, D.C., back rooms that would raise the debt ceiling and bind Congress to a multi-year budget deal

Republican presidential candidate Ohio Governor John Kasich argued House Republicans should send the president a debt ceiling increase with spending cuts and “keep taking” the National Defense Authorization Act to the president on Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s

Outgoing House Speaker Representative John Boehner (R-OH) stated he’d “like to” clear the plate for the next speaker and that he hopes Paul Ryan runs for speaker and would be “great” on Tuesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel.

Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, are reportedly planning legislation allowing President Barack Obama to lift the nation’s debt ceiling on his authority, according to sources on Capitol Hill. Under the Senate Republican plan, Congress would merely retain the right to “disapprove” of the President’s action to lift the nation’s debt limit. But disapproving the action would require a hard-to-reach two-thirds vote of both chambers of Congress.

GOP presidential candidate former Gov. Mike Huckabee is criticizing the GOP leadership in the Senate for negotiating a debt ceiling increase that would include cuts to Social Security and Medicare with the Obama Administration.

Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said that if he was president, a debt ceiling raise would be tied to a 3-4% budget cut and that his flat tax rate “would probably be closer to 15%” on Thursday’s broadcast of

Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), one of the 28 Republicans who publicly supports replacing House Speaker John Boehner with a Republican alternative, told Breitbart News on Tuesday that Boehner does not have enough support within the Republican conference to win re-election with just Republican votes.