Well since the bill O signed makes most of the Bush tax cuts permanent, meaning they don’t expire like they did twice before (Dec 31 2012), they wont have this weapon to use again.
RE: they wont have this weapon to use again.
Just remember this — the present Congress is NOT BOUND by a previous congress.
Therefore, nothing is “permanent”
Pffft. Like they couldn’t drum up another phoney baloney crisis or get Pubs to trade tax hikes for magic beans. Anyway, they don’t need to bother with oldfashioned laws and parliamentary procedure. They can tax at will through the money supply, at least until its price inevitably skyrockets. But by then Keynes said we’d all be dead.