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 ....

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 621 pages

Contents

• OPENING STATEMENTS: 1
• Testimony 318: 3
• Page: 8
• Schultze Warns of Impact of Balanced Budget Rule by Mary Russell Page4: 26
• Everett Richard W vice president Chase Manhattan Bank New York: 72
• Testimony 353: 103
• Bayh Hon Birch a U S Senator from the State of Indiana chairman Page: 111
• McClure Hon James A a U S Senator from the State of Idaho: 118
• Blumenthal Hon Michael W Secretary of the U S Treasury: 126
• DeConcini Hon Dennis a U S Senator from the State of Arizona: 150
• WEDNESDAY JULY 25 1979: 161
• Lugar Hon Richard G a U S Senator from Indiana__: 170
• THURSDAY OCTOBER 4 1979: 183
• Prepared statement: 186
• Muskie Hon Edmund S: 188
• ONeill Thomas P III chairman Citizens for the Constitution Wash: 206
• Davidson Jim chairman National Taxpayers Union Washington D C: 213
• APPENDIX: 249
• THURSDAY OCTOBER 11 1979: 253
• seasonally adjusted: 270
• CBO economic projections based on current policy and actual eco: 278
• Gerber Martin vice president International Union UAW: 284
• Grant Allan president American Farm Bureau Federation_: 292
• Van Andel Jay chairman of the board Chamber of Commerce of: 299
• PROPOSED LEGISLATION: 459
• S J Res 5 introduced by Senator Dole January 15 1979: 465
• S J Res 7 introduced by Senator Armstrong January 15 1979: 472
• S J Res 11 introduced by Senator Talmadge January 15 1979: 478
• S J Res 18 introduced by Senator Thurmond January 18 1979: 486
• S J Res 38 introduced by Senator Byrd Va February 8 1979: 492
• S J Res 56 introduced by Senator Heinz April 5 1979: 499
• S J Res 79 introduced by Senator Byrd Va May 17 1979: 507
• S J Res 93 introduced by Senator Armstrong July 9 1979: 513
• Senate Joint Resolution 126 proposing an amendment to the Constitution: 531
• American Federation of Teachers____: 550
• International Association of Fire Fighters: 556
• National Education Association_: 557
• NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES: 564
• Budget Balancing by Bruce Bartlett from the New York Times Jan: 571
• The Perils of Fettered Government Expenditures by Harold G Vatter: 578
• Attacking Federal Grants an editorial from the Washington Post Feb: 584
• A Question of Trust by Paul J Mishkin from Newsweek March 5 1979: 591
• Balanced Budget Fallacies by Walter W Heller from the Wall Street: 597
• President Denounces Political Gimmickry of Drive To Balance Budget: 603
• Would a Budget Amendment Work? by Robert H Bork from the Wall: 605
• OMB Director Says Balanced Budget May Become Energy Battle: 619

Popular passages

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 - Resolved that provision ought to be made for the amendment of the Articles of Union whensoever it shall seem necessary, and that the assent of the National Legislature ought not to be required thereto.

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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.

Bibliographic information

• Pealkiri: 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 ....; 96. number,41. osa of Serial, 96th Congress, United States Congress
• Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
• Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980
• Length: 621 pages