BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT - POOPED ON BY THEM DEMS

Sense of Senate on balanced budget amendment falls short

The Senate on Wednesday fell short by two votes of passing a non-binding "sense of the Senate" resolution calling on Congress to pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
The final vote was 58-40, with 60 votes needed to pass the amendment.
 Freshman Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) presented the amendment to patent-reform legislation earlier in the week and argued for it prior to the vote Wednesday afternoon.
 

(When the old guard elitist  prefers business as usual this is the result:)

Floor manager for the Patent Reform Act, Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT.), spoke out against the amendment but his criticism dealt with the way the freshmen senators used his bill as a delivery mechanism for their proposal.

(THIS JUST SHOWS HOW DEMS LACK THE EMPATHY FOR THE CONDITION THIS COUNTRY IS IN. THEY ARE LIVING IN A WORLD OF OUT OF CONTROL FANTASY. IF THEY ARE SERIOUS ABOUT FIXING THE OUT OF CONTROL DRACONIAN BHO BUDGET THIS WAS THE CHOICE TO MAKE. INSTEAD THEY POOPED ON IT.)

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/147143-senate-falls-short-of-expressing-support-for-balanced-budget-amendment-


ROLL CALL ON S-23

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 112th Congress - 1st Session
as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of
the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary
Question: On the Amendment (Lee Amdt. No. 115 )
Vote Number: 30 Vote Date: March 2, 2011, 05:16 PM
Required For
Majority:
3/5
Vote Result: Amendment Rejected
Amendment Number:
S.Amdt. 115 to S. 23 (Patent Reform Act of 2011)
Statement of Purpose:
To express the sense of the Senate in support of a
balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
Vote Counts:
YEAs 58
NAYs 40
Not Voting 2

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00030#position