ENDORSEMENTS
Lawrence Reed
President, Foundation for Economic Education
"Don’t sit back and fret about runaway government. Get involved, take responsibility and help save the country. Support the Compact for America’s balanced budget amendment - easily the single best vehicle to stop the sin of spending recklessly today and burdening our children and grandchildren with the tab. Your conscience demands it!”
George Will
Washington Post Columnist
"Do you believe a balanced-budget amendment is a required
response to the nature of today’s politics and governance, now
that the courts neglect to do their duty enforcing Congress’
adherence to the Constitution’s enumeration of powers? If so,
the Compact’s amendment is remarkably resistant to evasion. It
would use the Constitution’s Article V to move the nation back
toward the limited government the Constitution’s Framers thought
their document guaranteed.”
Lt. Col. Allen B. West (ret.)
President/CEO National Center for Policy Analysis
“When asked what was the most pressing national security concern for the United States, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen stated, ‘our national debt.’ I wholeheartedly concur as our national debt – not including unfunded liabilities -- has grown from $10.67T to $18.1T over the past six years. This represents a clear and present danger to the future of our Constitutional Republic. The American people must seek out means by which we restore fiscal responsibility to the federal government – and our Founding Fathers left us mechanisms in the Constitution. I join in supporting and endorsing the Compact for a Balanced Budget as a viable approach to rein in excessive and unprioritized federal government spending that threatens the legacy of liberty we pass on to subsequent generations of Americans.”
Judge Andrew Napolitano
Fox News Contributor/Constitutional Scholar
“To stop the insanity of an out-of-control federal government
fueled by limitless debt spending, States must unite behind the
Compact for a Balanced Budget.”
Mike Church
Sirius XM Radio Personality
"The only rational plan to amend the Constitution and begin the process of balancing the Federal budget is the Compact for America's."
James M. Rodney
Founder, The Rodney Fund
"Without a limit on the federal government’s borrowing capacity,
nothing short of a system crash will force Washington to
rethink its priorities and revisit first principles. But the character
of our society has changed so much for the worse that we cannot
assume that the process of rebuilding will lead to positive change.
Instead, I believe we should do everything we can to stop the
runaway train first. I am convinced that Compact for America’s
streamlined approach to ratifying a federal Balanced Budget
Amendment is our best chance."
Hon. Lamar Smith
Congressman, State of Texas
“Congress on its own is unlikely to pass a constitutional amendment requiring the federal government to operate under a balanced budget. The States could have the power to advance this requirement through an interstate compact, a more orderly vehicle than a chaos-prone Constitutional Convention. I encourage the states to join into the Compact for America's interstate compact without delay, and send the Compact's enabling omnibus resolution to Congress for action.”
Hon. Paulette Braddock
Compact Commissioner/Legislator (GA)
“It is time to support the Compact for a Balanced Budget for the
same reasons President Ronald Reagan supported Nobel Laureate
Milton Friedman’s effort — only the states will originate a powerful balanced budget amendment. Left to its own devices, Congress will never tie its own hands.”
Hon. John Culberson
Congressman, State of Texas
“I support the tenets of the balanced budget amendment drafted
by the Compact for America as well as the vehicle it has devised
to initiate such an amendment – an interstate compact. It is
time to rein in federal spending, and one of the most effective
ways to do that would be with the adoption of a balanced budget
amendment.”
