[PerConPat]

Members of Congress, with few if any exceptions, have a top priority in common. It is, of course, reelection. They must therefore please majorities within their districts. A majority of US Congressional districts are dominated by factions that could not care less about deficit spending. That is the underlying factor in the current dog and pony show in the House.

Times are far too good at present for serious action to curb borrowing and spending. Now if there were to be a shortage of currency grade paper and ink, we might expect immediate attention from the "People's House".

[CodeToad]

“They must therefore please majorities within their districts.”

That’s now how it works. They must appease their major bribers, their money men, their contributors, their sugar daddies. Money buys votes, so who cares what the people want.