Cord Byrd: “But now we are going to be in a very different situation if this Constitution is going to be amended. And it will not be…”

“But now we are going to be in a very different situation if this Constitution is going to be amended. And it will not be amended for just a year or so; it will be changed from now until kingdom come, unless the American people and Congress repeal this amendment once it is in the Constitution. The Senator knows that. It is not easy once it is in there. It is not like a statute which can be repealed by the same Congress that enacted it in the first place. I am asking the Senator. Suppose we get into a situation where this Nation's security is in peril and more money is needed and the necessity arises for an increase in taxes. Then what are my friends on the other side going to do in that situation?”