Cord Byrd: “It depends on what the Senator means. When he said would a Senator ``deliberately violate his oath of office,'' I am…”

“It depends on what the Senator means. When he said would a Senator ``deliberately violate his oath of office,'' I am looking at what the amendment says. I did not write it, Senator. I did not sign onto that Contract With America. I have not gone around the country saying that the answer to our deficit problem is a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. You perhaps did. I did not. I am pointing out that that constitutional amendment to balance the budget, which you swore to vote for, probably has flaws. Unless you rewrite that language that is in that constitutional amendment, which I did not write, you are not going to correct that flaw, and it is going to be based on estimates which I have already said are invariably wrong. It is not whether a Senator would knowingly violate his oath. It is what the amendment says, that your party for the most part wrote. I did not write it. I am looking at the language. It is plain, unmistakable, clear English language.”