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Article V balanced-budget resolution fails after lengthy debate
Utah House of Representatives · March 10, 2014
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Summary
First Substitute HJR8, calling for an Article V convention to propose a balanced-budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution, failed in the House after an extended floor debate about delegate behavior, emergency exceptions and economic flexibility. The first substitute was defeated 32–41.
Representative Powell sponsored the first substitute to House Joint Resolution 8, asking the Utah Legislature to join other states in requesting an Article V convention limited to a balanced-budget amendment. Powell framed the measure as a necessary response to growing federal debt…
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