It appears Democrats have been preparing since January to force a vote by the entire House on raising the debt ceiling. Whether it works and they can find five sane Republicans to go along with [.]
House Democratic leaders who have been quietly planning a strategy to force a debt ceiling increase to avert default began taking steps on Tuesday to deploy their secret weapon.
"The only clue to the gambit was in the title of the otherwise obscure hodgepodge of a bill: 'The Breaking the Gridlock Act,'" the New York Times reports."But the 45-page legislation, introduced without fanfare in January by a little-known Democrat, Representative Mark DeSaulnier of California,