The Balanced Budget Debate Begins | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has offered a Sense of the Senate Amendment to the Patent Reform Act of 2011 (S.23) testing the waters on the idea of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution (Senate Amendment 115). This will be a referendum to testing the waters for the idea of a balanced budget amendment in the Senate. The details of any mechanism to cut spending is very important and should be studied in great detail."