The House failed to pass a measure that would propose amending the Constitution to require the federal government to have a ...
Lawmakers voted 211-207 against the resolution, which would have begun the process of amending the Constitution to prohibit ...
House Narrowly Rejects Balanced Budget Amendment ...
The amendment, led by Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, fell short on a 211-207 vote, below the two-thirds threshold required for constitutional amendments. Every Republican who took part in the vote ...
It is time for a fiscal responsibility amendment to the United States Constitution.
The U.S. House tanked a balanced budget resolution to curb the federal government’s practice of racking up trillion-dollar ...
Balanced budget amendments are a highly ill-advised method for addressing the nation’s long-term fiscal problems, this version particularly so because it stacks the deck in favor of spending cuts over ...
Representative John B. Larson (CT-01) said Republicans would have forced automatic reductions to key programs.
A balanced federal budget in the United States is consistent with a massively bloated government operating well beyond its constitutional limits. This is what the budgetary experts at libertarian and ...
A bipartisan commitment to responsible budgeting was once a fundamental part of American governance. Congress borrowed for exceptional situations and reduced the debt burden otherwise. Since the Great ...