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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
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.
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Orrin Hatch
Republican · Utah

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Discussing an amendment related to balanced budget requirements.

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