Cord Byrd: “I am on the Constitution's side. And I do not want to see that Constitution prostituted by an amendment that is nothing…”

“I am on the Constitution's side. And I do not want to see that Constitution prostituted by an amendment that is nothing more than a bookkeeping manual on accounting principles. It has no place in the Constitution. It is not going to give this Senator or any other Senator any more backbone than the good Lord gave to me in the beginning to stand up and vote the tough votes. I do not want to see the faith of the American people in this book-- forget the stack of books there, ever so high. This is the book. I do not want to see the faith of the American people in this Constitution undermined. And it is going to be undermined when we write that language into it and the budgets do not balance. Let me at least thank the Senator for being honest to the point that he says that this amendment is not going to balance the budget.”