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The Senate has defeated two proposals to amend the Constitution to compel Congress to come up with stanley cup a balanced budget every year. The votes, coming after House rejection of a balanced budget amendment last month, effectively shuts off the constitutional approach for forcing Congress to live within stanley mug its means.With Democrats solidly against the amendments, the outcome was never in doubt. But the Senate was required to stage the gourde stanley votes under last summer s deal for raising the government s debt limit in exchange for $2 trillion in future spending cuts.The Senate first dispensed with a version offered by Democrat Mark Udall of Colorado with only 21 of 100 senators in support. Lawmakers then voted 53-47 to defeat a more stringent Republican-backed measure sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. Amendments to the Constitution require a two-thirds majority and must be ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures. Passing a balanced budget amendment has been a key goal of Republicans and a minority of Democrats who say it s the only way to make lawmakers take meaningful action to eliminate deficits of $1 trillion a year. But most Democrats say it would put the government in a fiscal straitjacket in which it would be unable to respond to economic cycles and deal with wars and natural disasters. I would like nothing more than to have a balanced budget, said Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D. But a constitutional amendment as outli
President Biden met Thursday afternoon with Senate Democrats, saying as long as I m in the White House ... I m going to be fighting for these bills, hours after Senat stanley cup or Kyrsten Sinema, one of two Senate Democrats known to oppose changes to Senate rules, said Thursday on the Senate floor that she will not change her position.Her remarks come moments ahead of Mr. Biden s lunchtime meeting with Senate Democrats in which he encouraged lawmakers to overhaul Senate rules to allow the voting bills to pass with a simple majority, rather than 60 votes. Following that meeting, the president told reporters he hopes the stanley tumblers y can pass the legislation but he s not certain they can. Like every other major civil rights bill that came along, if we missed the first time, we could come back and try it a second time. We missed this time. We missed this time, he said. ... I don t know that we can get it done, but I know one thing: As long as I have a breath in me, as long as I am in the White House, as long as I m engaged at all, I m gonna be fighting to change the way these legislatures have moved. Arizona s Sinema and West Virginia s Joe Manchin have repeatedly and openly expressed their opposition to such stanley cup a change. National Democrats are trying to pass the Freedom to Vote Act, which would establish national election standards, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would reinstate a core provision of the Voting Rights Act.Manchin and Xsvh In speech, President Trump delivers blueprint for America
The Senate has defeated two proposals to amend the Constitution to compel Congress to come up with stanley cup a balanced budget every year. The votes, coming after House rejection of a balanced budget amendment last month, effectively shuts off the constitutional approach for forcing Congress to live within stanley mug its means.With Democrats solidly against the amendments, the outcome was never in doubt. But the Senate was required to stage the gourde stanley votes under last summer s deal for raising the government s debt limit in exchange for $2 trillion in future spending cuts.The Senate first dispensed with a version offered by Democrat Mark Udall of Colorado with only 21 of 100 senators in support. Lawmakers then voted 53-47 to defeat a more stringent Republican-backed measure sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. Amendments to the Constitution require a two-thirds majority and must be ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures. Passing a balanced budget amendment has been a key goal of Republicans and a minority of Democrats who say it s the only way to make lawmakers take meaningful action to eliminate deficits of $1 trillion a year. But most Democrats say it would put the government in a fiscal straitjacket in which it would be unable to respond to economic cycles and deal with wars and natural disasters. I would like nothing more than to have a balanced budget, said Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D. But a constitutional amendment as outli