Chris Coons actually said...

"Unless you specified in the amendment to the Constitution that the usual rules about standing, political question, ripeness, and mootness were changed specifically for the balanced budget amendment, t..."

"I think most of the members I've gotten to know in my year so far agree that we are fiscally on an unsustainable path."

"I'm someone who served as a county executive and lived under the strictures of a balanced budget amendment, and thus on some level am intuitively drawn to them as a potential budgetary solution."

"I do think it's a significant distinction."