How do you balance it out toward the amendment? I think it's critical that the country, that the federal government get that way, too. I wanted to ask you, In 1995, Congress came close to passing a balanced budget amendment. Do you know how did it get so close? Well, let's just get there. How did it get so close and how did we get so far away from the notion that Congress used to have of balancing the budget? (18:46–18:52)
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