The focus of the debt limit increase should be to put added responsibility on the executive branch and mechanisms for the executive branch to reduce spending.
They have been embraced by employers trying to limit their responsibility for rising health care costs by passing on more of the risk to workers, but employees themselves have been less enthusiastic.
"As someone who made the mistake of voting for the resolution that gave the president the authority to go to war, I feel the weight of personal responsibility to act to devote time and energy to the national dialogue and an effort to limit this war and bring our participation to a conclusion, " he said in a speech on the Senate floor.