On the recordDecember 13, 2011
I rise today to join my colleagues in expressing my clear and unequivocal support for a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution, Senate Resolution 10. With our out-of-control and unsustainable debt threatening nothing less than the American dream and the opportunities that will be available for our children and our grandchildren, we need to pass a meaningful balanced budget amendment, and this, in my view, can be one of the single most important steps we can take to get America's fiscal house in order and to save our country from looming insolvency. Madam President, 49 States in this country have some requirement to balance their budget. The Federal Government should be no different. My home State of New Hampshire has a legal requirement to balance its budget and has long followed this commonsense tradition of fiscal responsibility. This is a subject I have discussed extensively with my constituents over the last year while I have done townhall meetings throughout our State focusing on our Nation's debt crisis. I have done a PowerPoint presentation to show my constituents the hard numbers on the fiscal state of this country.…
