Difficult to say u would have to go through the archives to find out what's easy to find is how it was solved after a 5 days partial shutdown of the nonessential federal services, the deal reached allowed for 75-percent funding for four weeks, and President Clinton agreed to a seven-year timetable for a balanced budget which addressed the root causes of the deficits.
There is common sense in such a deal since raise the debt limit without addressing the underlying imbalance between revenue and spending is only the promise to increase the debt today and tomorrow. If you add to that the funding of part of the welfare programs with debt, you have the recipe for in the future probably sooner than later the promise of a massive tax increase to face the debt created by the funding of these entitlements AND the promise of even a bigger cut in these programs when finally the bill kicks in and society finds out it isn't free. I don't know, I remember that you frequently supported creative social legislations but I haven't change my mind really about it, I oppose systematically any social spending that isn't funded in a balanced budget, Greece is the most recent example and there are plenty more, when finally the bill kicks in the beneficiaries of these programs are asked to pay for it and they can't.
Have you found the archives u were looking for?