Orrin Hatch: “We in our report make it very clear. We say: The committee believes that S. J. Res. 1 strikes the right balance in terms…”

“We in our report make it very clear. We say: The committee believes that S. J. Res. 1 strikes the right balance in terms of judicial review. By remaining silent about judicial review in the amendment itself, its authors have refused to establish congressional sanction for the Federal courts to involve themselves in fundamental macroeconomic and budgetary questions, while not undermining their equally fundamental obligation to ``say what the law is . . .'' The committee agrees with former Attorney General William P. Barr who stated that there is. . . . And then he went on to make it clear the courts will not.”