Editing Orrin Hatch (section)

==== Balanced budget amendment ====
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Hatch was a longtime advocate of amending the [[United States Constitution]] to require that total spending of the federal government for any fiscal year not exceed total receipts.<ref name="DeseretNews-20110116">{{cite news |title=Sen. Orrin Hatch sponsors balanced-budget amendment for 17th time |work=[[Deseret News]] |author=Jamshid Ghazi Askar |date=January 27, 2011 |url=https://www.deseret.com/2011/1/27/20169498/sen-orrin-hatch-sponsors-balanced-budget-amendment-for-17th-time |access-date=May 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005004314/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700104011/Sen-Orrin-Hatch-sponsors-balanced-budget-amendment-for-17th-time.html |archive-date=2018-10-05 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="SLTrib-20110116">{{cite news |title=Hatch pushes balanced budgets – again |work=[[The Salt Lake Tribune]] |date=January 16, 2011 |url=https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=51052567&itype=CMSID |access-date=May 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022084611/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51052567-76/hatch-budget-balanced-amendment.html.csp |archive-date=2016-10-22 |url-status=live }}</ref>

During his time in the Senate, Hatch sponsored a balanced budget amendment 17 times—4 times as lead sponsor and 13 times as a co-sponsor.<ref name="DeseretNews-20110116" /> He also voted in favor of passing a Balanced Budget Amendment on at least nine occasions.<ref name="RPC-BBA-1997">{{cite web|title=S.J.Res. 1 – Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment|work=Legislative Notice|publisher=[[Republican Policy Committee Chairman of the United States Senate|United States Senate Republican Policy Committee]] |url=http://rpc.senate.gov/releases/1997/v5.htm|access-date=February 12, 2011|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206205938/http://rpc.senate.gov/releases/1997/v5.htm|archive-date=February 6, 2011}}</ref><ref name="107-SJRes1">{{cite web|title =Bill Summary & Status 105th Congress (1997–1998) S.J.RES.1|work=[[THOMAS]]|publisher =[[Library of Congress]]|url =http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:s.j.res.00001:|access-date =February 12, 2011|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20151016231545/http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:s.j.res.00001:|archive-date =2015-10-16|url-status =live}}</ref> Hatch's proposed amendment passed the House of Representatives in 1997, but failed to pass the Senate by the required two-thirds majority by one vote to move on the states for ratification.<ref name="DeseretNews-20110116" /><ref name="105-Vote24">{{cite web|title=Vote Summary: On the Joint Resolution (S.J.Res.1), Vote Number: 24|work=U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 105th Congress – 1st Session|publisher=[[United States Senate]]|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=105&session=1&vote=00024|access-date=February 12, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110211201938/http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=105&session=1&vote=00024|archive-date=2011-02-11|url-status=live}}</ref>