U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and all 44 Senate Republican introduced a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution to bring what they think is a “much-needed fiscal discipline back to Washington.”

This amendment follows comments in President Barack Obama’s (D) Feb. 12 State of the Union address that supported what is being viewed as deficit spending on stimulus-style projects.

To read more about this, see the post, Republicans introduce amendent to ‘bring much-needed fiscal discipline back to Washington’ + my opinions, on “The Roadologist” blog on Better Roads magazine’s website. Better Roads is a sister publication to Aggregates Manager.