Coburn Seeks Convention to Amend Constitution
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 3rd, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Coburn Seeks Convention to Amend Constitution
Sen. Tom Coburn and other conservatives are pushing for a national convention to amend the Constitution. The Oklahoma Republican, who has grown disenchanted with gridlock in Washington, will officially launch his effort after he retires from the Senate in a few months. “I think [George] Mason was prophetic that we would devolve to where the federal government became too powerful, too big and too unwieldy. That’s why he put Article V in,” Coburn said. Article V of the Constitution stipulates that two-thirds of the states may call a convention to propose amendments to the nation’s founding document. It has never been successfully invoked.
Krugman: The Medicare Miracle
Paul Krugman, New York Times: Something remarkable has been happening on the health-spending front, and it should (but probably won’t) transform a lot of our political debate: Health spending has slowed sharply, and it’s already well below projections made just a few years ago. The falloff has been especially pronounced in Medicare, which is spending $1,000 less per beneficiary than the Congressional Budget Office projected just four years ago. This is a really big deal, in at least three ways.