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Cass Ballenger: We need a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to get our fiscal house in order. And we need to do it…

On the recordMarch 1, 1994
We need a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to get our fiscal house in order. And we need to do it now. Abraham Lincoln once said, ``You cannot keep out of trouble, by spending more than you earn.'' Well, the Congress cannot long stay out of serious trouble by piling debts into debts. I urge my wavering colleagues to consider the options. If not this, what? If not now, when? Let us pass a balanced budget amendment, and let's do it now.
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Cass Ballenger
North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

The speaker is urging colleagues to support a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

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