DeMint: No More Debt Without A Balanced Budget Amendment - HUMAN EVENTS

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been telling interviewers that Republican leaders “offered private assurances to the White House that they ultimately would vote to raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, regardless of whether a deal is reached on long-term spending cuts,” as Fox News reported.

This has prompted considerable anger from some of those Republican leaders. Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin was quick to deny any such deal had been made. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has been adamant that he won’t vote to raise the debt ceiling unless a balanced budget amendment is part of the deal, and might even support a filibuster to keep the debt ceiling in place.."