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Dale Bumpers: “I want to ask the Senator, No. 1, if the Senators in this body do not have the courage to cut spending and balance the…”

On the recordFebruary 28, 1994
I want to ask the Senator, No. 1, if the Senators in this body do not have the courage to cut spending and balance the budget now, and you put this in the Constitution, and there is absolutely nothing and no way to enforce it, because you are taking the courts out of it, what is it in this amendment that is going to change the courage of the Members of the Senate to balance the budget? That is the first question. The second question: If we wind up in the middle of the year seeing that either we have grossly overestimated revenues, or grossly underestimated spending and that we are therefore headed for an unbalanced budget--but the Senator cannot get 60 Senators to waive the budget. I want the Senator to tell me what would he do in each of these cases.
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas
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Editor's note · Context

The speaker is questioning the effectiveness of a proposed constitutional amendment on balancing the budget.

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