Cord Byrd: “I reacted the same way that the distinguished Senator from North Dakota reacted. It is arrogance. It is a new…”

“I reacted the same way that the distinguished Senator from North Dakota reacted. It is arrogance. It is a new ``Caesarism.'' It is the same arrogance that is displayed by those who beat the drums for a constitutional amendment on the balanced budget without at the same time being willing to lay out the plan to let the American people know what is in the offing, what is the price to be paid for this approach. How would the taxes be cut? What taxes will be cut? How much will they be cut? What cuts will there be in programs? What programs will be exempted? What programs will not be exempted? And it is an arrogance that is being manifested within this institution, the Congress of the United States, when it says you folks up there just pass a constitutional amendment to balance the budget, and do not tell us what it entails; do not tell the people in the legislatures what action we are going to have to take to continue programs from which we are presently receiving grants in our States, and so on. Do not tell us that. We do not want to know that. So the big folks up there in Washington--us big folk--we know it all. That Governor is saying: You fellows just send the money down to the States with no strings attached. That is the same thing on both subjects. Just pass a constitutional amendment and let the American people find out, in due time, where the pain is.”