Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Senior Vice President Bill Hoagland testified before the House Committee on Ways and Means during a hearing focused on the debt limit. Witnesses addressed how past Congresses and Presidents have negotiated and raised the limit, and whether the Constitution provides options to the Executive Branch when the debt limit is reached.

Watch video of the hearing here.

Read BPC's Debt Limit Analysis here.

Witness List

Lee Casey
Partner, Baker Hostetler

G. William Hoagland l Read testimony
Senior Vice President, the Bipartisan Policy Center

J.D. Foster
Norman B. Ture Senior Fellow in the Economics of Fiscal Policy, The Heritage Foundation

Simon Johnson, Ph.D.
Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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