PRINTER'S NO. 1419
No. 107 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY SELTZER, MAY 31, 1977
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, JUNE 1, 1977
In the House of Representatives, May 31, 1977
1 WHEREAS, With each passing year this Nation becomes more
2 deeply in debt as its expenditures repeatedly exceed available
3 revenues; and
4 WHEREAS, Knowledgeable planning and fiscal prudence require
5 that the budget reflect all Federal spending and that the budget
6 be in balance; and
7 WHEREAS, Believing that fiscal irresponsibility at the
8 Federal level, with the accompanying inflation is one of the
9 greatest threats which faces our Nation and firmly believing
10 that constitutional restraint is necessary to bring the fiscal
11 disciplines needed to reverse the trend; therefore be it
12 RESOLVED (the Senate concurring), That the General Assembly
13 of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania requests the Congress of the
14 United States to call a Constitutional Convention to propose an
15 amendment to the United States Constitution requiring in the
16 absence of a national emergency that the total of all Federal
17 appropriations made by the Congress for any fiscal year may not
18 exceed the total of the estimated Federal revenues, excluding
1 any revenues derived from borrowing for that fiscal year; and be
2 it further
3 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be sent to the
4 United States Senate and House and to each United States Senator
5 and Representative from Pennsylvania.
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