Posted on 11/18/2011 8:00:52 AM PST by NoLibZone
Conservatives are rallying in support of a balanced-budget amendment in the run-up to a Friday vote, warning fellow lawmakers that it's just about the only way to ensure Congress follows through on vows to cut spending.
The debate comes the same week the national debt crossed the $15 trillion mark. The milestone was a timely reminder of Washington's hard-to-break habit of spending way more than it takes in.
As a bipartisan committee remains stuck on how to cut $1.2 trillion from the 10-year deficit, lawmakers skeptical about the government's fiscal track record pushed Thursday for the amendment.
"We need a fiscal fix that will last for generations," Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said. "If we want to make lasting cuts to federal spending, a constitutional amendment is the only solution. It is our last line of defense against Congress's unending desire to overspend and overtax."
Republicans earlier this year took up the rallying cry of "cut, cap and balance," the nickname for their budget plan to cut spending, cap future spending levels and back a balanced-budget amendment.
The Democratic leadership is actively urging its members to vote against the amendment, and the White House has come out strongly against it. Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland, who voted for the measure in 1995, is leading the effort to defeat it this time.
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Occupy will support the DNC’s opposition to balance- thus proving the movement is 100% partisan and 100% fake.
The Democratic leadership is actively urging its members to vote against the amendment, and the White House has come out strongly against it.
Democrats still helping America. /s
Well, if the White House is against it, I’m for it.
However, just HOW will the Congress bring our never-discussed, never-approved budget into “balance”?
Won’t Democrats just say the amended Constitution now REQUIRES “automatic” tax rate increases?
When they do ay that, won’t our GOP big spenders display sad faces to public -— and — well out of sight — just “party-on”?
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