The measure would not reach balance, but it would undo automatic budget cuts that started taking effect this month and largely leaves alone rapidly growing benefit programs like Medicare.
On March 1, a series of automatic spending cuts hit the country after the President and Congress failed to reach an agreement about how to balance the budget (or at least trim spending enough to stop the bleeding).
As technologies evolve that the Founders could not have possibly anticipated -- from fully automatic weapons and thermal imagers to satellites and digital technologies -- we have to figure out how to balance our rights as individuals and needs as a society.