we voted last year, I would say to my colleague, the gentleman from Michigan, just last year we voted on the Barton amendment that had a two-thirds provision in it in the balanced budget amendment. Then we did, in fact, vote to have this body have a two-thirds vote to raise taxes last year.
Discussing previous votes related to the balanced budget amendment and tax increases.
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