Can I just ask: What is the exact subject of the vote right now?
From what Al seems to be suggesting, its the change of the word "bill" to the word "amendment", but everybody else seems to be treating it as a vote on the whole Constitutional Amendment.
I believe we were voting on if we should replace this:
Amendment to Remove the Balanced Budget Requirement
§1. Clauses 8-10 of Article I, Section 8 in the Constitution are hereby stricken.
I hereby open debate on this Ammendment
With this:
a. The Senate, over a three-budget period, must decrease any existent budget deficit by at least 2%.
b. Any individual budget can increase or decrease the deficit, but cycles must meet the criteria in a)
c. Cycles of three budgets are fixed with the first cycle starting with the budget of November 2005-February 2006
d. If the budget is in surplus, this amendment will not influence any budget deliberations.
