MS Senate GOP passes measure supporting constitutional convention to control fed spending

Senate backs convention to mandate fed. balanced budget

JACKSON – State senators want to sign Mississippi onto a plan for a nationwide constitutional convention that would force the federal government to balance its budget and require states’ permission to increase the national debt.

The Senate voted 30-18 Wednesday to pass Senate Bill 2389, part of a nationwide effort by conservative groups including the Goldwater Institute and the American Legislative Exchange Council, to get three-fourths of states to call such a convention. It seeks to limit the conclave to a single vote on the balanced budget proposal written in the law, and to provide for automatic approval of the pre-agreed amendment by the states that adopt the compact.

Hattiesburg American
2/11/15