Most Americans, upon first learning about Compact for America’s Balanced Budget initiative, feel a sense of relief and hopefulness. When faced with the certainty, safety, and speed that America’s Compact for a Balanced Budget provides as a strong solution to our countries looming debt problems, conscientious Americans are curious about how interstate compacts work. In Part One of our America’s Compact blog series, we learned what an interstate compact is, and how prevalent th

Most Americans, upon first learning about Compact for America’s Balanced Budget initiative, feel a sense of relief and hopefulness. When faced with the certainty, safety, and speed that America’s Compact provides as a strong solution to our countries looming debt problems, there’s usually only one question left-How does the Compact really work? First, it’s important for Americans to understand that America’s Compact for a Balanced Budget is already working! So far, conscienti

Building on the buzz fare generated by Rep. Gosar’s powerful piece outlining America’s need to Compact for a balanced budget amendment in The Hill last month, Compact for America’s council of scholar’s member, Sven Larson also helped school Washington on our need to "reopen" the case for a balanced budget amendment in The Hill this morning. After stating that while the GOP's budget is a "welcome change for the better," Mr. Larson points out just how susceptible the GOP's budg

America's Compact got one step closer to restoring fiscal sanity in D.C. yesterday with strong support from the Missouri Senate. The Missouri Senate voted 27-6 to pass SB 433-America's Compact for a balanced budget yesterday, and the historic legislation also received its first reading in the MO House as well. Lets thank the Missouri Senate for compacting with the American people to advance and ratify a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution, and make sure to support t

What an honor it is to live at a time when history isn't something we just get to passively read about, but something that we get to actively help write! This picture is one for the history books as it captures Mississippi's Speaker Philip Gunn and Pro Tem Greg Snowden during the floor debate on America's Compact for a Balanced Budget (which passed!). Thank you Mississippi for having the courage to be one of four states now to compact with the American people to restore fisca