On the recordJuly 21, 2011
Well, I think that is getting to the nub of the matter. I think it is a sense in which--now for a constitutional amendment to pass, it has to have a two-thirds vote in the Congress, both Houses, and three-fourths of the States. Once passed, no majority leader could come in next year and say: Well, I know I have been in favor of balanced budgets, but I don't want to do it this year. I have more spending I want to occur. It would, indeed, curb the power of the majority leader and actually some newly constituted Senate to spend more money than the government takes in, would it not?
