Orrin Hatch: “I believe it has really made a difference, and I hope people throughout this country will take heed to what he has said…”

“I believe it has really made a difference, and I hope people throughout this country will take heed to what he has said and get with their Senators and their Congress people and let them know it is time for this game called budgetary practice in Washington to get serious. The only way it is going to get serious, the only way we are going to solve these problems is with the type of fiscal discipline the balanced budget amendment would put into our system. So I hope everybody out there watching this on C-Span and hearing about it otherwise will contact their Senators and their Congress people and tell them we have just got to get that 67-vote margin in the Senate so that we can pass this amendment. My favorite quote responding to that comes from the Congresswoman from Maine, Olympia Snowe, who said that if it were just a gimmick, if the balanced budget amendment were just a gimmick, the Congress would have passed it long ago.”