Political Quotes

“The point the Senator from West Virginia was alluding to was section 1 of the bill: Total outlays for any fiscal year shall not exceed total receipts for that fiscal year * * * It is unenforceable, unworkable; these estimates will throw you all off; the estimates do not work; they are not reliable. And as a result this is an unenforceable constitutional amendment that is going to cause all sorts of unconstitutional activities in this Chamber. I mentioned to him that we must look down to the next section, section 2, which states: The limit on the debt of the United States held by the public shall not be increased, unless three-fifths of the whole number of each House shall provide by law for an increase, for such an increase by rollcall vote. There is the enforcement; that once we get to the balanced budget, or once we get to where the debt limit is, that we cannot increase that debt limit without a three-fifths vote.”