Sam Brownback: “Senator Kohl and I have offered this amendment. It is a very, very simple amendment. It just says if we are going to…”

“Senator Kohl and I have offered this amendment. It is a very, very simple amendment. It just says if we are going to break the spending caps on this bill, on this budget agreement that we've told the American people is going to balance the budget, if we're going to break the spending limits on it, we have to vote on it. And we have to vote and pass that by a 60-vote margin. That's it. The President has to say how he is going to get us to a balanced budget. If we're going to break that cap, he has to say how he is going to get us to a balanced budget; if we're going to break that spending cap, he has to say where we're going to make the spending cuts, and we have to vote if we are going to break it. I think this is the least we can do for the American people. It says, 'Folks, we meant it when we said we were going to balance the budget. We meant it when we said we're going to balance it by the year 2002.' And if we are going to break it, we've got to break it by a 60-vote margin.”