The latest push for a balanced budget amendment is just more unseasonable GOP pie-in-the-sky grandiosity.
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Their top priorities: Eliminate the Department of Education and pass the balanced budget amendment.
The same drafting error came up when GOP senators introduced a balanced budget amendment in 2011.
The proposed Balanced Budget Amendment would also include a supermajority requirement to raise taxes.
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But a statutory debt limit is a poor substitute for a constitutional balanced budget amendment.
Six in 10 likely voters believe a Balanced Budget Amendment is long overdue.
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The balanced budget amendment introduced by Senate Republicans yesterday contains a striking error.
We should then adopt a Balanced Budget Amendment to keep the balance permanent.
Any Congressman who gives lip service to a balanced budget Amendment but votes to raise the debt ceiling is a hypocrite.
Mr Boehner appeared to have won over recalcitrant conservatives in his party by strengthening language calling for the so-called "balanced budget amendment".
On Wednesday, the Senate begins debate on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, a top Republican priority the White House wants defeated.
Republicans are not immune from the impulse to try to legislate a better society a tendency most evident in their perennial proposals for a balanced budget amendment.
Back during Balanced Budget Amendment debates of the 1990s, late-Sen.
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Political romantics and constitutional theologians who place undying faith in a balanced budget amendment to staunch the flow of red ink out of Washington are delusional or in denial.
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We are not talking here about that hardy perennial, a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, that would easily become a lever for Democrats to push for higher taxes.
Burr, who refers to himself as a conservative, has supported the balanced budget amendment, spending limits, tax cuts and the abolishment of federal income taxes except in times of war.
But if language were in the House and Senate versions passing -- approving a balanced budget amendment, passing it on to the states, is that something the President would veto?
If Republicans are serious about passing such a bill in the House and putting the president on notice, it means they must stop fooling around with a balanced budget amendment (BBA).
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This is a particularly impressive accomplishment for a period in which the young government was relatively unsettled and unorganized, and a lesson about the atmosphere that would enable a Balanced Budget Amendment.
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That includes 70 percent cut in clean energy, drastic cuts in education, for example, and then significant reductions or dismantling of Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, in terms of the balanced budget amendment.
Instead, it spoke in dire terms of the possibility that America could lose its AAA credit rating, and advocated spending cuts, spending caps, and a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution as the solution.
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One last point on the balanced budget amendment.
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He insists that the congressman's vote for the Balanced Budget Amendment is simply an attempt to find political cover, and he is critical of Evans' move from the Agriculture Committee to the National Security Committee.
Jefferson was wary of borrowing, and BBA proponents are right that government borrowing is not at issue under the Balanced Budget Amendment: like Jefferson, the government may borrow, but it simply must cover its debts.
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The only way we can put the brakes on them is to pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution that limits spending cap 20% to start with and a super majority to change it or raise taxes.
And in case of the Senate economic plan, jobs plan that was put forward, I believe it was Macroeconomic Advisers said that if it were implemented right away, including the balanced budget amendment, it would cost millions of jobs.
That would mean Congressional authorization to add trillions more to the national debt, with no cuts in future planned spending of any sort, or any other limitations on future spending, such as a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
Imagine if he went to the floor (in Jimmy Stewart or Spencer Tracy fashion) to offer a powerfully symbolic piece of legislation -- for example, a balanced budget amendment to highlight the deficit issue or sweeping homeland security and veterans benefit legislation.
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