House Democratic leaders have been quietly planning a strategy to force a debt ceiling increase to avert default. They just began taking steps to deploy their secret weapon.
WASHINGTON — The only clue to the gambit was in the title of the otherwise obscure hodgepodge of a bill: “The Breaking the Gridlock Act.”
An emergency rule that Democrats introduced Tuesday, during a pro forma session held while the House is in recess, would start the clock on a process that would allow them to begin collecting signatures as soon as May 16 on such a petition, which can force action on a bill if a majority of members sign on. The open-ended rule would provide a vehicle to bring DeSaulnier’s bill to the floor and amend it with a Democratic proposal — which has yet to be written — to resolve the debt-limit crisis.
But behind the scenes, they were simultaneously taking steps to make sure a vehicle was available if needed. DeSaulnier’s intent was never to pass the elements of the bill, although he favors them all. It was to create what is known on Capitol Hill as a shell of a bill that would ultimately serve as the basis for a discharge petition — and a way out of the debt-limit standoff.
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