Gephardt rule
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The Gephardt rule, which was named for the former House Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo), enabled the House of Representatives to avoid a politically damaging vote to increase the debt ceiling if and when the House and Senate jointly agree on the same budget resolution.
In 2016, Nancy Pelosi seeks to relax this rule further in order to avoid a House vote on increasing the debt ceiling because, as observed by a commentator, "[g]etting the Democratic House and GOP Senate to adopt a joint budget resolution would be extremely difficult, to say the least, in the current political environment."[1]
