Senate Rejects Proposals For Balanced Budget Amendment Dec 18, 2011

December 18, 2011 at 8:07 pm in Accountability, GAN, John Cornyn, News, Senate by Kim Robinson · Tags: , , , , ,

On December 14, 2011, the Senate rejected two proposals for a Balanced Budget Amendment. In a strong partisan display, Republican-sponsored proposal SJ Res 10 was defeated by a Democratic majority vote of 53-46, shortly after the proposal sponsored by Sen. Mark Udall, D-CO, SJ Res 24 was also defeated. A strong proponent of passing the…