Thursday, August 4, 2011

The Budget Control Act Of 2011 Violates Constitutional Order

In the debt ceiling bill* just passed are buried procedures which cede future control over raising our debt ceiling to the President.   In my understanding it works as follows:
  1. When our borrowing gets within $100 Billion of the authorized debt limit. The President has authority to raise the limit.
  2. This raise is then automatic unless both the House and Senate DISAPPROVE of the raise.
  3. The President retains veto power over that disapproval ....... thus putting ALL POWER TO RAISE FUTURE DEBT CEILINGS SOLELY IN THE HANDS OF THE PRESIDENT.
THIS TOTALLY SHREDS OUR CONSTITUTION

[clipper]

* " The 74-page Budget Control Act of 2011 was not written over the weekend.  Yet it was posted on the House Rules Committee website with no fanfare, only hours before it was to be voted upon, breaking the pledge of the House Republicans to provide at least 72-hours advance public notice."   [American Thinker]

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