{"id":8599,"date":"2011-02-08T17:29:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T22:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8599"},"modified":"2011-02-08T17:29:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T22:29:47","slug":"balanced-budget-amendment-gains-democratic-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8599\/balanced-budget-amendment-gains-democratic-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Balanced Budget Amendment Gains Democratic Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2011\/02\/07\/balanced-budget-amendment-makes-a-comeback\" target=\"_blank\">signed on as a co-sponsor<\/a> to Senator Richard Shelby\u2019s (R-AL) balanced budget amendment bill, marking the first time a Democratic senator has supported such a measure since Zell Miller (D-GA) did eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>While Shelby\u2019s version differs in some ways from the framework promoted by CFIF\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemorevote.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cOne More Vote\u201d <\/a>initiative, Udall\u2019s surprise support is welcome news.\u00a0 Getting bipartisan consensus on the need to rein in federal spending is the <em>sine qua non<\/em> of real budget reform.<\/p>\n<p>My hat is off to Udall for putting himself on the record in favor of spending restraint.\u00a0 Now, it\u2019s time to convert his Democratic brethren.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) signed on as a co-sponsor to Senator Richard Shelby\u2019s (R-AL) balanced budget amendment bill, marking the first time a Democratic senator has supported such a measure since Zell Miller (D-GA) did eight years ago. While Shelby\u2019s version differs in some ways from the framework promoted by CFIF\u2019s \u201cOne More Vote\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1803,59,2374,1802,2375],"class_list":["post-8599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-balanced-budget-amendment","tag-deficit","tag-mark-udall","tag-one-more-vote","tag-richard-shelby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8602,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions\/8602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}