"[49] Legal analyst Jeffrey Rosen has argued that Section 4 gives the president unilateral authority to raise or ignore the national debt ceiling, and that if challenged the Supreme Court would likely rule in favor of expanded executive power or dismiss the case altogether for lack of standing.[50] Erwin Chemerinsky, professor and dean at University of California, Irvine School of Law, has argued that not even in a "dire financial emergency" could the President raise the debt ceiling as "there is no reasonable way to interpret the Constitution that [allows him to do so]". [51] The issue of the 14th Amendment and the debt ceiling has been categorized as an unsettled question in the legal community.[52]"
Unsettled until they want to pull that wild card is more accurate, then they'll say, "It's as clear as day" then he will do what ever he wants.
So, as we can all see, the votes don't matter in a dictatorship.
Oh and I am not sure
that I like how the balanced budget deficit and spending act does not apply to the congressional budget office. Why not?? Also the goal of the joint
committee is to reduce the deficit by 1.5 trillion some time between now and 2021. 
This bill is total garbage!
