mr. moliarian said the other night that quote the political ground is being prepared for a short-term stopgap compromise. and he warned that this could push stocks down and leave the u.s. debt rating quote extremely exposed to a damaging downgrade. let me again quote mr. aliarian, one of the great experts on our credit markets. what he said is the kind of plan that came over from the house, that is attempting to be debated in the house i don t think it will make it over. but the kind of plan being debated in the house would quote create an extremely exposed damaging downgrade to our credit to, our nation s debt rating. even republicans rejected a short-term solution in the recent months. it doesn t give you certainty. ideally you d like to get at that settled and mott have to continually have it continually hanging over you shall. that s the republican head of the ways and means wheat. house majority canter said, if we can t make the tough decisions now,
it requires two-thirds. we are bringing this up in a partisan way as part of a partisan effort that attracts little to no democratic support rather than working together to try to require congress to balance the budget each year, which in the past many members of my caucus have supported. so i think again, think we could go even further than the mcgovern amendment and specify a budget to be considered but i strongly support and i think it is reasonable support my colleague from massachusetts to amend the constitution especially since we don t know how many amendments we are looking at. we would have three days to consider those and i urge my colleagues to support the mcgovern amendment and i yield back. yes, let they just say as you know, measures that are considered on the house floor under suspension of the rules under both political parties come to the floor with literally one hour of notification, and nothing can pass this house under suspension of the rules without a t
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