On the recordFebruary 23, 1994
It does. But in that instance we were finding a way around a statute. Here we are finding a way around the Constitution of the United States. In section 1 we say outlays shall not exceed receipts. In section 6 it says, oh, well, we do not really mean that. "Congress shall enforce and implement this article by appropriate legislation * * *" which will balance--not the budget, not balance outlays and receipts, actual outlays and receipts because they can only be balanced after the close of the fiscal year, and I mean a few weeks after the close of the fiscal year, because it is only then that we really understand what the outlays and receipts are--but this will say we do not really have to balance the budget, we can just balance the estimates of outlays and receipts. And we have seen what happens when we deal with estimates.
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