Chris Coons actually said...

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

"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'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."

"The American people ought to know in advance whether they're turning the process over to the courts or not."