Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force

The Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force is a conservative Florida-based lobbying organization supporting a balanced-budget amendment to the United States Constitution.

The group advocates an Article V convention to include such an amendment. An Article V convention is convened at the request of two-thirds of the states. Twenty-seven have made the request. Thirty-four are needed and then thirty-eight states would be needed for ratification of any proposed amendments.

States requesting a convention

# Alabama
# Alaska
# Arizona
# Arkansas
# Florida
# Georgia
# Indiana
# Iowa
# Kansas
# Louisiana
# Michigan
# Mississippi
# Missouri
# Nebraska
# New Hampshire
# North Carolina
# North Dakota
# Ohio
# Oklahoma
# Pennsylvania
# South Dakota
# Tennessee
# Texas
# Utah
# West Virginia
# Wisconsin
# Wyoming

States rejecting a convention

# Colorado
# Delaware
# Maryland
# Nevada
# New Mexico

References

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{{cite news, last1=McKelway, first1=Doug, title=Push for Convention of the States to rein in government gains steam, url=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/15/push-for-convention-states-to-rein-in-government-gains-steam.html, accessdate=29 September 2017, publisher=Fox News Politics, date=May 15, 2017
{{cite news, title=We're surprisingly close to our first constitutional convention since 1787. Bad idea., url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-surprisingly-close-to-a-new-constitutional-convention-bad-idea/2017/04/06/f6d5b76a-197d-11e7-855e-4824bbb5d748_story.html, accessdate=29 September 2017, newspaper=Washington Post, date=May 6, 2017
{{cite web, last1=Leachman, first1=Michael, title=States Likely Could Not Control Constitutional Convention on Balanced Budget Amendment or Other Issues, url=https://www.cbpp.org/research/states-likely-could-not-control-constitutional-convention-on-balanced-budget-amendment-or, publisher=Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, accessdate=29 September 2017, date=January 18, 2017
{{cite news, last1=Rau, first1=Alia Beard, title=Phoenix constitutional convention gives 'rebirth to a new nation,' planners say, url=http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2017/09/15/phoenix-constitutional-convention-gives-rebirth-new-nation-planners-say/664206001/, accessdate=29 September 2017, publisher=Arizona Republic, date=September 15, 2017

Proposed amendments to the United States Constitution
United States federal budgets