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Courage to Amend
Failure of willpower is an unusual rationale for a constitutional amendment. Yet President Ronald Reagan stated that Congress's lack of willpower or courage to be fiscally responsible exposed a need for a Balanced Budget Amendment. In this speech, Reagan showcased several budget documents, using their unwieldy size to visually demonstrate how unreasonable the budget process had become.
"What we really need is a constitutional amendment that says, ‘There shall be some spine in our national leaders.'"
-- Senator Robert C. Byrd on the Balanced Budget Amendment, 1992 |