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Durbin Responds to Judiciary Committee Republicans’ Request for Hearings on Balanced Budget Amendment

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2011.  Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) sent a letter to Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and the other Republican members of the Judiciary Committee today, in response to their request for hearings on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

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Durbin, Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, raised concerns about the manner in which hearings were requested, but agreed to the request.

“I was…

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