Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Balance the Federal Budget: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 621 pages |
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... recent years has been the increased weight of Federal taxation . Since the beginning of the congressional budget process , the tax burden as a percent of GNP has increased from 18.4 percent in fiscal year 1976 to 20.1 percent projected ...
... recent years has been the increased weight of Federal taxation . Since the beginning of the congressional budget process , the tax burden as a percent of GNP has increased from 18.4 percent in fiscal year 1976 to 20.1 percent projected ...
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... recent history that the budget act alone will not stop deficit spend- ing . We need the discipline and even the compulsion which this constitutional amendment would provide if we are to reach that goal . This , in my opinion , is the ...
... recent history that the budget act alone will not stop deficit spend- ing . We need the discipline and even the compulsion which this constitutional amendment would provide if we are to reach that goal . This , in my opinion , is the ...
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... Recent years have shown that there is a total lack of fiscal discipline in Washington . For example , during the past 15 quarters , the economy has been a period of strong recovery . Yet , huge deficits in the budget have con- tinued ...
... Recent years have shown that there is a total lack of fiscal discipline in Washington . For example , during the past 15 quarters , the economy has been a period of strong recovery . Yet , huge deficits in the budget have con- tinued ...
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... recently , the only significant exceptions were years of war and the Great Depression . What has been lacking in the Federal Government in recent years . has been the will , the discipline to keep our Government finances on a sound ...
... recently , the only significant exceptions were years of war and the Great Depression . What has been lacking in the Federal Government in recent years . has been the will , the discipline to keep our Government finances on a sound ...
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... recent years , risen from the status of being desirable to the status of being urgent . I say this because I see no measure short of such a constitutional amendment which can achieve fiscal responsibility in the federal government . Recent ...
... recent years , risen from the status of being desirable to the status of being urgent . I say this because I see no measure short of such a constitutional amendment which can achieve fiscal responsibility in the federal government . Recent ...
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Page 227 - It is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of our finding certain opinions natural and familiar or novel and even shocking ought not to conclude our judgment upon the question whether statutes embodying them conflict with the Constitution of the United States.
Page 200 - Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies ; but upon a combination of these, with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs.
Page 64 - Such term does not include authority to insure or guarantee the repayment of indebtedness incurred by another person or government.
Page 75 - ... or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of...
Page 448 - English language. 1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled 3 (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the fol4 lowing article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitu5 tion of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents 6 and purposes as part of the Constitution...
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Page 74 - The State Legislatures will not apply for alterations but with a view to increase their own powers. The National Legislature will be the first to perceive and will be most sensible to the necessity of amendments, and ought also to be empowered, whenever two thirds of each branch should concur to call a Convention.
Page 340 - Chairman, may I thank the chairman and the members of the committee for their consideration.