jct74
08-01-2011, 10:28 PM
From Jennifer Bendery @ HuffPo:
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said Monday that Vice President Joe Biden told the House Democratic Caucus that President Barack Obama was, in fact, prepared to use the Constitution to raise the debt limit.
"We heard in there that the president, if this all had failed, was willing to invoke the 14th Amendment," DeFazio said after the meeting ended.
The news runs counter to what the White House, and even Obama himself, had said for weeks: that option has been off the table because it is unclear whether the president has the legal authority to invoke the 14th amendment to raise the debt ceiling himself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/01/debt-ceiling-deal-reached_n_905841.html#502_defazio-biden-said-obama-was-prepared-to-invoke-14th-amendment
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said Monday that Vice President Joe Biden told the House Democratic Caucus that President Barack Obama was, in fact, prepared to use the Constitution to raise the debt limit.
"We heard in there that the president, if this all had failed, was willing to invoke the 14th Amendment," DeFazio said after the meeting ended.
The news runs counter to what the White House, and even Obama himself, had said for weeks: that option has been off the table because it is unclear whether the president has the legal authority to invoke the 14th amendment to raise the debt ceiling himself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/01/debt-ceiling-deal-reached_n_905841.html#502_defazio-biden-said-obama-was-prepared-to-invoke-14th-amendment