[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 82 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 82

    To petition the States to convene a Conference of the States to 
       consider a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

              March 2 (legislative day, February 22), 1995

     Mr. Brown (for himself and Mr. Helms) submitted the following 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    To petition the States to convene a Conference of the States to 
       consider a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.

Whereas Article I of the Constitution of the United States of America provides 
        that the Congress is vested with the authority to lay and collect taxes, 
        to pay the debts of the United States, to borrow money on the credit of 
        the United States, and to appropriate money from the Treasury;
Whereas for the past quarter century Congress has been unable to balance the 
        Nation's budget in any year;
Whereas the President of the United States has submitted a budget which 
        increases the deficit in future years;
Whereas Members of Congress have been unable to agree on language for an 
        Amendment to the Constitution which would require a balanced budget; and
Whereas Congress has therefore attempted to deny the several States of the 
        United States the opportunity to vote on a Constitutional Amendment 
        requiring a balanced budget: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That Congress hereby petitions the several States of the 
United States of America to convene a Conference of the States for the 
express and exclusive purpose of drafting an Amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States requiring a balanced budget and 
prohibiting the imposition of unfunded mandates on the States, and that 
such States then consider whether it is necessary for the States to 
convene a Constitutional Convention pursuant to Article V of the 
Constitution of the United States in order to adopt such Amendment.
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