Cord Byrd: “The courts are going to decide that. It does not make any difference what my intent is or what the intent of the House…”

“The courts are going to decide that. It does not make any difference what my intent is or what the intent of the House Member was who was addressing himself to that question, or what he intent of any other Senator is. It is the court, and it will be a constitutional crisis. Once we constitutionalize this fiscal policy by writing this amendment into the Constitution, it is an open invitation to the courts to come into this equation. There is nothing in this amendment that prohibits or forbids the courts from intervening.”