Sens Udall, McCaskill, Manchin, & Nelsons Introduce Dem BBA to be voted on this fall

[Ruby the Liberal]

One of the big victories by tea-party Republicans in the debt-ceiling measure signed into law Tuesday was securing a requirement that Congress vote later this year on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

The measure would need a two-thirds vote in each chamber, and then ratification by 38 states, to succeed. And most observers believe passage in the Democratic-controlled Senate is all but impossible.

Enter Sen. Mark Udall, the centrist Democrat from Colorado, who has introduced an amendment proposal and said Tuesday that Democratic leaders have chosen his legislation to be considered in the fall.

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Udall is up for reelection in 2014. Many of his Democratic co-sponsors – including Sens. Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Joe Manchin (W. Va.), Bill Nelson (Fla.) and Ben Nelson (Neb.) – are running this year and need support from centrists.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/moderate-senate-dems-prepare-a-balanced-budget-amendment/2011/08/02/gIQAn6GHqI_blog.html

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[vi5]

1. Hey, any dem is better than any republican, right?

So let's get out there and support these guys!!!!

[udbcrzy2]

3. Not when the vote for the same thing the republicans do n/t

[OHdem10]

2. The Me Toos are at it again. American People , we just want

you to know there is not a dime's worth of difference
in the two Parties.

Sometimes this party would do well not to Mimic Republicans.