The constitution does not allow Congress to form a committee whose recommendations cannot be debated or amended, but must be either passed or rejected and rejection triggers across the board cuts that also cannot be debated or amended.
This is not like past commissions like Simpson Bowles from last year or Bush’s Tax Reform Commission that simply made recommendations. If this committee’s recommendations are not approved, congress is forced to accept something else.
Its real simple. The committee makes recommendations that the two Houses can either independently choose to ignore, pass, reject or modify. Nothing unconstitutional there.
Last week the three branches passed into law a conditional/delayed set of budget cuts, nothing unconstitutional there.
Any congress can pass a law getting rid of the cuts or changing them, nothing unconstitutional there
It is perfectly constitional because it doesnt force or stop the congress from doing anything. Dont like the cuts?? That is why we get a vote.