Orrin Hatch

That article lists how much $1 trillion really is. As I look at the President's recent budget, the way deficit cuts are calculated by the administration is like a 200 pound man claiming he lost weight when he weighs in at only 300 pounds…

I would like to echo the distinguished majority leader's sentiments with regard to President Reagan and the dramatic impact he made on this town. Both the majority leader and President Reagan worked very closely together, hand in hand, and…

I have to say I give him credit for certainly bringing the deficit down from the almost $300 billion that it was--$279 billion--to $190 billion. But from here on in, through the year 2005, this budget, using optimistic economic assumptions…

the Senator from California suggests that the balanced budget amendment is inconsistent with the Framers of the constitution and their Constitution because it requires a supermajority to pass an imbalanced budget. She asserts that this is…

I pointed out that article V sets forth the exclusive conditions for promulgation of a constitutional amendment. The distinguished Senator from North Dakota brought up that there is a 7-year time limit and that is a condition on…

Through the years, we have had a variety of plans proposed that would bring us to a balanced budget--Zero Deficit Plan, Concord Coalition, Senate Budget Committee Plan, Economic and Budget Outlook for Fiscal Years--a lot of others. You…

I cannot begin to tell folks out there how much I appreciate these new Senators, who really realize how important it is to bring about change in the Congress of the United States. I particularly appreciate these last two who have spoken…

let me just say that this is ``business as usual.'' I do not blame the President. It is a tough job for him, and he knows he has to deal with the people up here, so he is trying to do the very best he can. But even doing the best he can…

If I could add something to that. I agree with the distinguished Senator from Illinois. I am not fighting with the Senator from Arkansas. There is no question, the Government can play a role. Where you have valid social programs, I do not…

As a matter of fact, the American people did not mean this to be a mere Republican revolution. They said, look, we are willing to try anything to get spending under control. And the polls do show that they believe Republicans will do a…

That is a good question, and I think one deserving of an answer. First of all, you will never get all the economists to say the Government has to help us solve the employment problem or that make- work jobs are going to get us there.

I want to reemphasize that this is one of the most important debates that has ever taken place in the U.S. Senate. The subject matter indeed goes to the very heart of the hope of the Framers of the Constitution for the constitutional…

Mr. President, let me assure the American people that the balanced budget amendment is neither snake oil nor a tonic. It is a necessary first step to a healthier economic lifestyle. It is as sensible as anyone who has been a binge…

Not at all, because if we required you to balance the budget every year, that would fly in the face of the right to do something when we have exigent and difficult times. The fact of the matter is, what this amendment always represented…

There would be no impoundment authority under this balanced budget amendment. Under Senate Joint Resolution 1, or House Joint Resolution 1, there is nothing in either amendment, either the House or the Senate version--and they are both…

I particularly want to pay tribute to Senator Simon and his very extensive and good remarks that he made this morning. A lot of people feel he is a very unlikely person to be leading the fight on the balanced budget amendment, but I feel…

I suggest that the American people are about fed up with the profligacy of Congress. They see us just spending this country right into bankruptcy. They see no real curtailment. They have seen a series of legislative approaches that were…

I wish to respond to the impoundment argument that Senator Johnston has just raised. In each of the years the balanced budget amendment has been debated, I have noticed that one specious argument is presented as a scare tactic by the…

I do not want to see the Social Security trust fund compromised in any way. I believe everybody on this side will help her. But if her point of view becomes the law, then come the year 2028, 2029, 2030, we are going to be in a tremendous…

Well, every President has a duty to do his best or her best, to try to bring our fiscal house into order. But for the last 26 years no President has been able to really submit a balanced budget to the Congress. They may have once or twice.

I personally understand what the distinguished Senator from California is saying and trying to do. Keep in mind that although that curve goes up and down, in the year 2030, it starts going into a deficit. If the balanced budget amendment…

I have been interested and I want to personally thank the distinguished Senator from Ohio for the excellent remarks he has made today. He has brought this whole matter into focus when he talks about the effects on his children and his…

Some say no matter what you do the courts do not have control but they ought to. The majority say, well, we do not want the courts to have any control or have any interest in this and then we wind up, we wind up on both sides of the issue…

Mr. President I would like to respond to some of the remarks made earlier by our distinguished ranking member on the Judiciary Committee about capital budgets. The proposed exemption for so-called capital investments could help evade the…

I am concerned about the Senator's feelings. I do not see a way in the world that the Court is going to find standing here, or even justiciability, let alone interpret the political question doctrine any other way than it has through all…