GOP lawmakers push balanced budget mandate in Constitution
PHOENIX (AP) " Republican lawmakers from 19 states are trying to develop a plan in Arizona this week for carrying out a growing, but unlikely, national effort to amend the Constitution to require a balanced U.S. budget, a long-held goal of conservatives who believe out-of-control spending is harming the nation.The plan is to add an amendment to the Constitution through a convention " a longshot effort that has never been successfully done. All 27 amendments that have been adopted were [...]
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