Balanced-budget Amendment: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session on S.J. Res. 1, a Bill Proprosing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States to Require a Balanced Budget, January 17 and 22, 1997, Volume 4 |
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Page 169 - Prominent on the surface of any case held to involve a political question is found a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; or the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion...
Page 172 - The judiciary on the contrary has no influence over either the sword or the purse, no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever.
Page 118 - Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund...
Page 203 - IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES MAY 15 (legislative day, MAT 13), 1987 Mr. ROTH introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to limiting campaign expenditures. 1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives...
Page 169 - All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.
Page 173 - Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the Government with restrictions, that cannot be observed ; because they know, that every breach of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence, which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the Constitution of a country, and forms a precedent for other breaches, where the same plea of necessity does not exist at all, or is less urgent and palpable.
Page 229 - USC 665) , is amended to read as follows : "(2) In apportioning any appropriation, reserves may be established solely to provide for contingencies, or to effect savings whenever savings are made possible by or through changes in requirements or greater efficiency of operations.
Page 84 - The result is that the toal of government spending is higher, even though the majority of voters would oppose the higher total if given a chance. 2) Deficit financing helps magnify this defect. It enables Congress to make the benefits of increased spending immediately evident to special constituencies while disguising the costs in the form of borrowing, reduced economic growth, higher interest rates, and inflation that are diffused over large numbers of the rest of society.
Page 203 - States. 1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in...
Page 182 - SECTION 7. Total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States Government except those derived from borrowing. Total outlays shall include all outlays of the United States Government except for those for repayment of debt principal.