Pelosi declines endorsement of 14th Amendment solution

Pelosi declines endorsement of 14th Amendment solution
By Mike Lillis - 07/29/11 05:12 PM ET


House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday declined to endorse a 14th-Amendment solution to the debt-ceiling impasse.

All of Pelosi's top lieutenants have urged President Obama to invoke the Constitution and hike the debt limit unilaterally as a last resort if Congress fails to act by the Aug. 2 default deadline.

But Pelosi, thus far, is staying on the sidelines of that debate.

"I hope that we can come to an agreement before then," Pelosi said as she left a Democratic Caucus meeting Friday afternoon. "That's where I'm focusing my attention."

The 14th Amendment states that the “the validity of the public debt … shall not be questioned.” Many observers of the current debt-limit debate argue that the language empowers the president to raise the debt ceiling without congressional input.

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you may not need to? :shrug:

:D

who WEREN'T listening! :hi:

Then it might be useful. I don't see how it authorizes raising the ceiling.

The President shouldn't claim to have constitutional powers he doesn't really have.

She wants the cuts.