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Article: Issue of a balanced-budget amendment resurfacing for new Congress.(Originated from By R.A. Zaldivar)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- November 14, 1996
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Knight-Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON _ If the Constitution required a balanced budget, President Clinton and the Republican Congress would have been compelled to compromise during last winter's fiscal stalemate, instead of shutting down the government. America would now be on track to erasing the deficit by 2002, not back at the beginning, with Congress preparing yet again to debate and vote on the amendment next year. That's the reasoning in favor of amending the Constitution to require a balanced budget. Yet the arguments against it are also worthy.
For example, in the last recession, Congress voted additional unemployment aid for millions of laid-off workers ...