WASHINGTON (AP) — House GOP leaders have scheduled a vote next week on a constitutional amendment that would require a balanced federal budget.
But they're shelving a version of the amendment that tea party activists favored. Instead, the Republican leaders are pressing for Democratic votes in hopes of actually passing the measure. That's what happened in 1995, with lots of help from Democrats.
The amendment requires that Congress not spend more than it receives in revenues unless three-fifths of both the House and the Senate vote to do so and requires the president to submit a balanced budget to Congress.
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