Orrin Hatch: “But the problem is, it is not up to just the two of us. It has been up to everybody in Congress for 28 years of…”

“But the problem is, it is not up to just the two of us. It has been up to everybody in Congress for 28 years of unbalanced budgets. I know that people do not like these two stacks because they are embarrassing. It is embarrassing to me to have to point to these and say for the 21 years I have been here, these have been unbalanced. For all of those 21 years I fought for a balanced budget amendment. But I have to say, we do not have the will. It is apparent and we are not going to have the will unless we do something about it constitutionally, where everybody will have to face the music. Right now they do not. And where some on our side love more defense spending and some of the Democrat side love more social spending in ways that may be irresponsible, under the balanced budget amendment I think we are going to all have to be more responsible. I just wish--this is an erstwhile wish, I understand--but I wish my colleague from West Virginia were on our side on this, because I think it would be a much easier amendment to pass.”