The Senate is not originating it....this is just a system of negotiating....nothing unusual.
If the Senate is “negotiating”, then this is all kabuki theater.
McConnell should be backing up Boehner, not splitting the approach. There should have been a common strategy. McConnell getting Biden involved smacks of weakness.
McConnell, Frist, Lott,—geez, 16 years of failures in the Senate.
Oh, wait, they will stand firm on the debt ceiling, though.
Not.