Anyway, it's too late to build any fallback procedures into the bill.
"This has been very well planned and the Russians know what they are doing," he said, "There are many layers of fallback procedures and redundant systems that give me some confidence it will work".
Many standard approaches from the literature can be visualized using Bonferroni-based graphical test procedures, including the weighted or unweighted Bonferroni Holm procedure (Holm, 1979), fixed sequence tests (Maurer et. al, 1995; Westfall and Krishen, 2001), fallback procedures (Wiens, 2003), and gatekeeping procedures (Bauer et al., 1998; Westfall and Krishen, 2001; Dmitrienko et al., 2003).
Test procedures accounting for the inherent logical relationships include fixed sequence tests (Maurer et al., 1995; Westfall and Krishen, 2001), gatekeeping procedures (Bauer et al., 1998; Westfall and Krishen, 2001; Dmitrienko et al., 2003) and fallback procedures (Wiens, 2003; Huque and Alosh, 2008).
To control the family-wise error rate associated with testing the alternate co-primary hypotheses, a fallback testing procedure [ 15] was employed.
In the recent past multiple test procedures have been developed that reflect the relative importance of different study objectives, such as fixed sequence, fallback, and gatekeeping procedures.
So far as I can tell, this is precisely the logic behind Mitch McConnell's fallback proposal, which would basically establish an extremely complicated parliamentary procedure that enables the president to raise the debt ceiling while Republicans go on the record voting against it, thereby postponing any actual reckoning until after the 2012 election.
So the fallback is to combine what cuts they can agree to with budget procedures to enforce additional future savings.
The German government initiated parliamentary procedures last month with a view to setting up a "precautionary" fallback programme for Greece under which the country would try to fund itself on the markets, but have a eurozone cushion if that was not possible.
A fallback provision itself must be constitutional, but how to discern the constitutionality of the fallback will not always be obvious, especially where the original provision's defect consists in its use of some impermissible procedure, for then courts will need to ascertain whether the fallback purges the taint of the original provision.
