Ron Paul to pause campaign to vote against debt-ceiling increase

Ron Paul announced on Tuesday he would pause from campaigning in South Carolina to vote against raising the federal debt ceiling.

The Texas Republican plans to fly to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday for the motion of disapproval and resume his presidential campaigning on Thursday.

The House is likely to vote in favor of the motion but the ceiling will likely be increased anyway, along a party-line vote. The motion is likely to die in the Democratic-led Senate, and even if it made it through that chamber President Obama would veto it when it came to his desk.

Last Friday Obama asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling by another $1.2 trillion. That request came after a tense standoff in August among legislators on Capitol Hill. The country narrowly averted a default because of unexpectedly long negotiations in Congress over a deal to raise the debt ceiling.

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