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 ...

Jindal’s insistence on a balanced budget amendment makes the least sense of his first three proposals. He mentions that states have balanced budget laws, but he neglects to mention that it has ...

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

In an interesting essay on Public Discourse, political scientist Carson Holloway makes the case that Hamiltonian principles argue strongly against adoption of a balanced-budget amendment to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

This article has been updated to clarify a dollar figure relating to the Shelby County Sheriff's Office. Shelby County Board ...

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 ...