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.
Republicans in the Senate failed by one vote to win passage of a balanced-budget amendment to the constitution.
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.
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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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.
Many of the service cutbacks could have been easily avoided by a budget amendment last week sponsored by Republican Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas.
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.
The budget amendment passed with some Democratic support in the House.
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.
Back during Balanced Budget Amendment debates of the 1990s, late-Sen.
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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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The Administration noted in the FY 2014 Budget that after determining the required force levels in Afghanistan, a Budget amendment updating the OCO request would be submitted to the Congress.
Although the Socialists opposed Mr Sarkozy's plan to adopt a balanced-budget amendment in the constitution, Mr Hollande promises to pass a golden rule of his own (as an ordinary law).
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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But a new balanced-budget amendment to the constitution will force Germany to slash spending or raise taxes next year the opposite of what is needed to correct Europe's imbalances and shore up growth.
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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Some American economists favour a strict balanced-budget amendment.
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.
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