[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 28 (Thursday, March 6, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S2021]
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                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petitions and memorials were laid before the Senate and 
were referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-38. A resolution adopted by the Knoxville City Council 
     relative to the land and water conservation fund; to the 
     Committee on Appropriations.
       POM-39. A resolution adopted by the Toledo City Council 
     relative to the Clear Air Act; to the Committee on 
     Environment and Public Works.
       POM-40. A resolution adopted by House of Representatives of 
     the General Assembly of the State of Delaware; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.

                        House Resolution No. 11

       Whereas, the annual Federal budget has not been balanced 
     since 1969, and the federal public debt is now more than $5 
     trillion--or $20,000 for every man, woman, and child in 
     America; and
       Whereas, continued deficit spending demonstrates an 
     unwillingness or inability of both the federal executive and 
     legislative branches to spend no more than available 
     revenues; and
       Whereas, fiscal irresponsibility at the federal level is 
     lowering our standard of living, destroying jobs, and 
     endangering economic opportunity now and for the next 
     generation; and
       Whereas, the federal government's unlimited ability to 
     borrow raises questions about fundamental principles and 
     responsibilities of government, with potentially profound 
     consequences for the nation and its people, making it an 
     appropriate subject for limitation by the Constitution of the 
     United States; and
       Whereas, the Constitution of the United States vests the 
     ultimate responsibility to approve or disapprove 
     constitutional amendments with the people, as represented by 
     their elected state legislatures; and opposition by a small 
     minority repeatedly has thwarted the will of the people that 
     a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution should be 
     submitted to the states for ratification; Now, therefore: Be 
     it
       Resolved by the House of Representatives of the 139th 
     General Assembly of the State of Delaware That the Congress 
     of the United States expeditiously pass, and propose to the 
     legislatures of the several states for ratification, an 
     amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring, 
     in the absence of a national emergency, that the total of all 
     Federal appropriations made by the Congress for any fiscal 
     year may not exceed the total of all estimated federal 
     revenues for that fiscal year; be it further
       Resolved That the Clerk of the House transmit copies of 
     this resolution to the President of the United States Senate, 
     the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United 
     States, each Member of the Delaware Congressional Delegation, 
     and the Secretary of State and the presiding officers of both 
     Houses of the Legislatures of each of the other States in the 
     Union.

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