FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New Hampshire Becomes the 18th
State to Call for a Federal Balanced Budget Amendment
Today's Date -- May 16, 2012
New Hampshire Becomes the 18th
State to Call for a Federal Balanced Budget Amendment
New Smyrna
Beach, FL, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the New Hampshire
Senate completed the process started by the House and passed HCR 40 making New
Hampshire the 18th of 34 states needed to call an amendment convention to solely
consider a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This event marks
a resurgence of the federalism our founders intended as the states use their
constitutional powers granted in Article V of the U.S. Constitution to reign in
out of control federal spending that is leading our nation into an economic
abyss.
Representative Ulery (District 27), the House Sponsor, stated, “a Balanced
Budget Amendment (BBA) will force Congress to do what they seem incapable of
doing, that is reduce spending and tell the American people the truth about the
cost of our nation’s unfunded entitlement promises.”
"The
American people can prosper for generations if the states propose and ratify a
Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) that stops the trillion-a-year deficits and pays
back the $15 trillion in debt. Fortunately our founders gave the states in
Article V of our Constitution a powerful mechanism to restrain the federal
government if it should abuse or exceed its limited delegated authority. Over
70% (CNN Poll) of Americans want a BBA and 38 states have the power to draft and
approve one," said BBA Task Force Co-founder David Biddulph.
New
Hampshire legislators have taken an innovative approach to answering the
concerns of some that a convention to solely consider a Balanced Budget
Amendment could propose an unrelated amendment. State Senator Fenton Groen
(District 6) sponsored and the Senate approved (SB 356), which, has been amended
in the House to limit the authority of New Hampshire delegates to an Article V
amendment convention to only consider the subject matter contained in the
state’s resolution. The passage of this legislation will make New Hampshire the
first state in the nation to criminalize and recall “faithless” delegates to an
amendment convention.
Scott
Rogers, Executive Director of the Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force noted,
“Every delegate from New Hampshire to a U.S. constitutional amendment (drafting)
convention shall be required to take an oath to only vote on the amendment
subject approved by the legislature. Any vote taken by a delegate at the
convention in violation of their oath will be null and void. Any delegate making
this vote shall be immediately recalled, replaced and face criminal charges from
the State of New Hampshire.”
The
Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force is a non-profit, non-partisan organization
whose mission is to educate state legislators on their Constitutional power to
propose and ratify a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that
aims to quadruple family income and pay off the nation’s debt within four
generations.
CITIZEN INITIATIVES
Single Issue
Amendment Conventions
P.O. Box 523 Spruce Pine, NC 28777-0523
Tel: (828) 765 1978
FAX:
Internet:
info@citizeninitiatives.org
