SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The House State Affairs Committee today forwarded resolutions to convene a convention to propose a federal balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
Representative Isaac Latterell of Sioux Falls says an amendment term limiting the presidency was very effective.
Testifying over the phone this morning constitutional scholar Robert Brown questioned the legislature’s ability to limit delegate’s actions at a convention.
It takes 34 states to reach the two-thirds needed for a convention with 38 state legislatures needed to ratify the proposed amendment.