Article: AMENDMENT OPPOSITION RESURFACES : RUBIN ASSAILS PLAN FOR BALANCED BUDGET.(News)

Byline: David E. Sanger The New York Times

A day after President Clinton appeared to open the door a bit to a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin slammed that door shut again Wednesday, declaring that the administration would ``actively oppose'' the adoption of any such amendment.

In an interview, Rubin dismissed a possibility that Clinton held out Tuesday: that the amendment could be written with an escape hatch that ``gives the country what it needs to manage a recession.'' Rubin said any balanced-budget amendment would be ``a dangerous thing to do,'' because ``you can't protect against the ...

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