On the heels of an unpaid-for $1.3 trillion spending binge, House Republicans have announced they plan to—I’m not making this up—push for a balanced budget amendment (BBA) when they return ...

The right and the left don’t agree on how they’d like to change the Constitution, but they do agree that changes need to be ...

President-elect Donald Trump has called for either eliminating the debt limit or pushing it far into the future. Many ...

the Delta Smelt Is a Ridiculous Fish Abolishing the filibuster and passing a balanced-budget amendment would be a start toward curing what ails American government. Editor’s Note: On December 14 ...

“In Florida, we’ve proven that a balanced budget amendment and term limits work. That’s why we’ve passed resolutions urging Congress to enact them on the federal level. We will pass ...

Their fear is that even a convention called under Trump to deal with a narrow issue, like a balanced budget amendment, would lead to a “runaway convention” where anything and everything is on ...

Nunn, a Republican from Bondurant, said attaching a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution would rein in spending and prevent waste in the federal government. “We want to come out ...

warns of the danger of a "runaway convention," in which a convention adopted to consider one proposed amendment (such as a balanced-budget amendment, favored by Republicans) could wind up adding ...

While the mayor proposed a balanced budget ... Commissioners Mickell Lowery and Michael Whaley proposed a budget amendment that would tackle eight of the 15 proposed amendments.

Conservative efforts have targeted a Balanced Budget Amendment they’ve long envisioned or, more generally, to limit the power of the federal government. Supporters of new gun laws have called ...