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Editor's Note - On February 22, 2011, Senator David Williams sponsored this call for a constitutional convention to pass a balanced budget amendment. The vote passed in the Senate was 22 Rs to-16 Ds. It went to the House where it died in committee. 

The full text of the Resolution follows the jump.

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging Congress to call a convention for the sole purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring a balanced federal budget.

School field trips are often fun but not always educational. Thirteen Hickman County High School juniors got a good measure of both in Frankfort on Tuesday.

Students in the local Chamber Leadership Program were treated to a tour of the Capitol, time with their state senator, a speech given to the Kentucky Senate by a US senator, a tea party rally and a constitutional debate. The trip concluded on cold and windy stop at the Vietnam War Memorial. That was the educational portion of the trip.