OPINION:
To those 535 people on Capitol Hill: Get to work. The Treasury’s borrowing authority must continue without interruption (“White House calls on Congress to approve two-year budget deal,” Web, Oct. 23). The current statutory debt limit must be suspended. Otherwise, it’s another government budget, and shutdown crisis, a second bond-rating reduction and further damage to the full faith and credit of the United States at the hands of hard-headed, recalcitrant congressional types who apparently are clueless about the legislative process and economics.
Congress must stand down from this possible Nov. 3 plunge into the black abyss of government credit default. It must begin to govern for the nation because an issue as critical as the Treasury’s borrowing authority affects the interests and standing of the United States internationally. Governance involves negotiation and compromise to produce solutions to problematic issues.
The time, therefore, is at hand for Congress members to begin acting in statesmen-like fashion and to countenance themselves as elected representatives on behalf of the people of the United States of America.
Congress, pass this necessary legislation now to continue the Treasury Department’s borrowing authority on behalf of the United States. And do so without your usual drama and histrionics — before Nov. 3.
EARL BEAL
Terre Haute, Ind.
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