Tina Smith: “The Founding Fathers also provided for an amendment process to the Constitution because they knew that it would need…”

“The Founding Fathers also provided for an amendment process to the Constitution because they knew that it would need that flexibility, because it could not predict the future nor foresee the future. This debate is, essentially, a nonpartisan debate on the issue of whether or not we need an amendment, constitutional amendment, to balance the Federal budget. Just because this Senator and the remaining Republican Senators in the Senate at the time did not agree with the Senator from Maryland that the way to bring the deficit down was to increase taxes $250 billion, but rather bring spending down $250 billion to move the budget deficit down, that does not make me opposed to bringing the deficit or the debt down. The truth of the matter is, those on this side who voted against that wanted to cut spending, not raise taxes.”