The latest push for a balanced budget amendment is just more unseasonable GOP pie-in-the-sky grandiosity.
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Their top priorities: Eliminate the Department of Education and pass the balanced budget amendment.
The same drafting error came up when GOP senators introduced a balanced budget amendment in 2011.
The proposed Balanced Budget Amendment would also include a supermajority requirement to raise taxes.
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But a statutory debt limit is a poor substitute for a constitutional balanced budget amendment.
Republicans in the Senate failed by one vote to win passage of a balanced-budget amendment to the constitution.
Six in 10 likely voters believe a Balanced Budget Amendment is long overdue.
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The balanced budget amendment introduced by Senate Republicans yesterday contains a striking error.
We should then adopt a Balanced Budget Amendment to keep the balance permanent.
Beyond calling for reductions in spending and government programs, the platform endorses what comes dangerously close to a balanced-budget amendment.
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Any Congressman who gives lip service to a balanced budget Amendment but votes to raise the debt ceiling is a hypocrite.
Mr Boehner appeared to have won over recalcitrant conservatives in his party by strengthening language calling for the so-called "balanced budget amendment".
On Wednesday, the Senate begins debate on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, a top Republican priority the White House wants defeated.
Many of the service cutbacks could have been easily avoided by a budget amendment last week sponsored by Republican Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas.
Germany's new balanced-budget amendment to its constitution will force it to pursue a tight fiscal policy, unless the coalition circumvents it to permit tax cuts.
The budget amendment passed with some Democratic support in the House.
Republicans are not immune from the impulse to try to legislate a better society a tendency most evident in their perennial proposals for a balanced budget amendment.
Mr Scott, for example, has been critical of the federal balanced-budget amendment, a perilous role for someone from a southern state with a long tradition of fiscal conservatism.
Back during Balanced Budget Amendment debates of the 1990s, late-Sen.
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Political romantics and constitutional theologians who place undying faith in a balanced budget amendment to staunch the flow of red ink out of Washington are delusional or in denial.
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Some Republicans are clamouring to include still more in any agreement, including a cap on spending at 18% of GDP and backing for a balanced-budget amendment to the constitution.
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We are not talking here about that hardy perennial, a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, that would easily become a lever for Democrats to push for higher taxes.
The Administration noted in the FY 2014 Budget that after determining the required force levels in Afghanistan, a Budget amendment updating the OCO request would be submitted to the Congress.
Although the Socialists opposed Mr Sarkozy's plan to adopt a balanced-budget amendment in the constitution, Mr Hollande promises to pass a golden rule of his own (as an ordinary law).
Burr, who refers to himself as a conservative, has supported the balanced budget amendment, spending limits, tax cuts and the abolishment of federal income taxes except in times of war.
But if language were in the House and Senate versions passing -- approving a balanced budget amendment, passing it on to the states, is that something the President would veto?
If Republicans are serious about passing such a bill in the House and putting the president on notice, it means they must stop fooling around with a balanced budget amendment (BBA).
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This is a particularly impressive accomplishment for a period in which the young government was relatively unsettled and unorganized, and a lesson about the atmosphere that would enable a Balanced Budget Amendment.
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I'll submit to Congress a budget that will balance within four years and call on Congress to pass a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution which limits federal spending to 18% of GDP.
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