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.
Back during Balanced Budget Amendment debates of the 1990s, late-Sen.
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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.
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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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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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.
While she favors a hike in the minimum wage and leans against fast track trade authority as a threat to state jobs, she "adamantly" favors a ban on partial birth abortions, is pro-life (with the usual exceptions), supports term limits and could support a Balanced Budget Amendment.
The Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) advocated in the context of the debt limit talks is not a virtue if the federal government can collect unlimited, ever-increasing percentages of income and is effectively not constitutionally prohibited from any economic intervention whatsoever, which defines the modern American spending and regulatory state.
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Also, in a new twist that analysts say illustrates the discord among the Republican party, Republican Senator John McCain, the party's 2008 presidential nominee, took to the Senate floor to criticise House Republicans who continue to push for a balanced budget amendment to the US constitution as the price of raising the debt ceiling.
Republicans in the Senate failed by one vote to win passage of a balanced-budget amendment to the constitution.
Beyond calling for reductions in spending and government programs, the platform endorses what comes dangerously close to a balanced-budget amendment.
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Germany's new balanced-budget amendment to its constitution will force it to pursue a tight fiscal policy, unless the coalition circumvents it to permit tax cuts.
Mr Scott, for example, has been critical of the federal balanced-budget amendment, a perilous role for someone from a southern state with a long tradition of fiscal conservatism.
Some Republicans are clamouring to include still more in any agreement, including a cap on spending at 18% of GDP and backing for a balanced-budget amendment to the constitution.
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