House Democrats Move to Force a Debt-Limit Increase as Default Date Looms
Briefly

The only clue to the gambit was in the title of the otherwise obscure hodgepodge of a bill: The Breaking the Gridlock Act.But the 45-page legislation, introduced without fanfare in January by a little-known Democrat, Representative Mark DeSaulnier of California, is part of a confidential, previously unreported, strategy Democrats have been plotting for months to quietly smooth the way for action by Congress to avert a devastating federal default if debt ceiling talks remain deadlocked.
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