Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) will introduce today two pieces of legislation aimed at forcing Congress to heed a decades-old demand for a convention under Article Five of the Constitution to address runaway federal spending and inflation.
Arrington’s office refused to comment on the resolutions to the Epoch Times other than to confirm by email that Arrington will be introducing something “on this issue.”
Bipartisan advocacy group Let US Vote for a Balanced Budget Amendment Citizen’s Campaign (LUVCC) says that as of 1979, 34 states—or the required two-thirds—had submitted calls to Congress for a convention under Article Five “imposing fiscal restraints on the federal government toward achieving a balanced federal budget” while noting that “Congress has failed to comply with its Constitutional mandate to call for a convention.”…