This amendment does not mandate a balanced budget as the only option. This amendment requires us to move toward a balanced budgets, because it requires a balanced budget or supermajority votes if we are going to run deficits.
Orrin Hatch: “This amendment does not mandate a balanced budget as the only option. This amendment requires us to move toward a…”
On the recordFebruary 12, 1997
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Discussing an amendment related to balanced budget requirements.
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