Orrin Hatch: “We think that is not the way to go. We believe we have to pass the balanced budget amendment, get it out to the States…”

“We think that is not the way to go. We believe we have to pass the balanced budget amendment, get it out to the States, and I assure my colleague, Republicans and Democrats will get together and we will have to come up with that glidepath in the year 2002. I think we will have to get a majority of both Houses to do it. That is the only way we are going to get there. And my point about the last 19 years is that we have never been able to do it in that time. I want to have the mechanism, the procedural route by which we can get there.”