00CS FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 29(FIN) am                                                                            
01 Relating to the federal balanced budget amendment.                                                                      
02 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
03  WHEREAS the United States House of Representatives has passed H.J. Res. 1                                              
04 proposing a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution; and                                            
05  WHEREAS it is in the national interest for the federal government to live within its                                   
06 means; and                                                                                                              
07  WHEREAS the United States moves more deeply into debt as its expenditures exceed                                       
08 its available revenues and the national debt now exceeds four trillion dollars; and                                     
09  WHEREAS annually the federal budget reflects the unwillingness or inability of the                                     
10 federal government to spend in conformity with available revenues; and                                                  
11  WHEREAS the goal of eliminating the national deficit and controlling national                                          
12 government spending may be advanced by the passage of a balanced budget amendment by                                    
13 the United States Congress and ratification of the amendment by the states of the union;                                
14  BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature urges the United States Congress                                      

01 to pass, and the president to support, a resolution proposing an amendment to the United                                
02 States Constitution that requires the balancing of the federal budget without shifting costs or                         
03 unfunded mandates to the states; and be it                                                                              
04  FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature urges the legislature of                                            
05 each state of the nation to ratify a balanced budget amendment that is passed by the United                             
06 States Congress.                                                                                                        
07  COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Bill Clinton, President of the                                
08 United States; the Honorable Al Gore Jr., Vice-President of the United States and President                             
09 of the U.S. Senate; to the Honorable Strom Thurmond, President Pro Tempore of the U.S.                                  
10 Senate; to the Honorable Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; to                                
11 the Honorable Ted Stevens and the Honorable Frank Murkowski, U.S. Senators, and the                                     
12 Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, members of the Alaska delegation in Congress;                                 
13 and to  the presiding officer of each house of  each state of the United States.