Rep. James Clyburn cites Civil Rights Victories on Debt

This must be the reason that the Republicans do not want the President to invoke the 14th Amendmnet. As Rep. Clyburn states, things happen and situations change when the sitting President uses his Execuitve powers. Let's see if the Congress can get it together or if the President will have to 'by any means necessary' raise the debt ceiling and protect the rating of the United States of America.

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) cited major civil rights victories as examples of successful presidential executive orders as evidence President Barack Obama should invoke the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling if Congress fails to do so.

“He could do that [an executive order] with a stroke of a pen. We have seen many big things done in history that way,” Clyburn said on MSNBC’s “Jansing & Co.” “I was joking to my staff the other day: ‘Tell me the bill number for the Emancipation Proclamation.’ It was an executive order. We integrated the armed services by executive order. We integrated the public schools by executive order. Sometimes executives must order that things get done.”

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