Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s push for a balanced budget amendment

Published March 29, 2011 4:00am ET



Representative Bob Goodlatte doesn’t look like Don Quixote, but the reliably conservative, low-key congressman from Virginia’s sixth district is doing something that in the eyes of some looks a lot like tilting at windmills. He’s pushing for a balanced budget amendment, the perennial favorite of budget hawks who believe that only hard constitutional language will break D.C.’s spendthrift ways.

Over the weekend, we interviewed Rep. Goodlatte on “The Score” radio show and asked him about this latest attempt to get the BBA, as it has long-been known by supporters, off the ground.

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