Based on a Daily Caller piece, the Republican study committee is pressing GOP leadership in the House to push for a balanced budget amendment with this debt ceiling vote. But Boehner apparently is trying to kill the amendment as he apparently views it as a gimmick:
House conservatives are urging Republican House Speaker John Boehner to include institutional spending reforms, including a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, as part of the GOP’s demand to Democrats for raising the debt ceiling. …
The effort by the conservatives, who are led by RSC Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio, comes as Majority Leader Eric Cantor is negotiating with Vice President Joe Biden and Democratic Sens. Max Baucus and Daniel Inouye over sizable spending cuts, but not, according to Cantor’s public comments, any of the institutional reforms the conservatives are proposing. …
Privately, the conservatives are suspicious of Boehner.
“Leadership from the beginning has been trying to kill the balanced budget amendment,” a GOP aide told The Daily Caller, adding that the stakes are high because the debt ceiling vote is “the most leverage we’re gonna have this Congress.”
Boehner cosponsored a balanced budget amendment introduced by GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia in the last Congress. But privately, he views it as a “gimmick,” said Andy Roth, the Vice President for Government Affairs at the Club for Growth, which is backing the version of the amendment introduced by Walsh.
Levin has had enough of what he calls an impotent Speaker of the House. He declares he does not trust Boehner and that he has proved he isn’t a fighter:
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