News as we go into Independence Day. Rand Paul may filibuster the Senate until they debate the debt ceiling.
Tea Party favorite Sen. Rand Paul is planning a filibuster sometime next week to bring the debt ceiling negotiations to the Senate, the Huffington Post is reporting.
“We’ve not had one minute of debate about the debt ceiling in any committee,” the Kentucky Republican told C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” in a Sunday interview. He said after not having a budget or an appropriations bill in two years, he’s “part of the freshmen group in the Senate that’s saying, ‘No more.’”
So next week, he’ll take a stand: he’ll filibuster until negotiations about the debt ceiling take place on the floor of the Senate.
A group of conservative senators plan to present their own proposal to raise the debt limit, hand-in-hand with a balanced budget amendment.
Paul’s declaration of an impending filibuster comes after an attempt by a fellow Republican, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson. Last Tuesday, Johnson blocked all unanimous consent calls, the equivalent of halting any and all Senate business.
Source: The Daily Caller - h/t to Judson Phillips at the Tea Party Nation
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