Rep. Arrington to Introduce Resolutions on Article Five Convention as Inflation Reaches Historic High

Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) will introduce today two pieces of legislation aimed at forcing Congress to heed a decades-old demand for a convention under Article Five of the Constitution to address runaway federal spending and inflation.

Arrington’s office refused to comment on the resolutions to the Epoch Times other than to confirm by email that Arrington will be introducing something “on this issue.”

Bipartisan advocacy group Let US Vote for a Balanced Budget Amendment Citizen’s Campaign (LUVCC) says that as of 1979, 34 states—or the required two-thirds—had submitted calls to Congress for a convention under Article Five “imposing fiscal restraints on the federal government toward achieving a balanced federal budget” while noting that “Congress has failed to comply with its Constitutional mandate to call for a convention.”

The group said that five additional states have called for a convention since 1979, bringing the total to 39 states calling for a convention to consider some sort of balanced budget amendment.

“I commend Rep. Jodey Arrington for his leadership in introducing legislative proposals designed to restore federal fiscal sanity and recognize the rights of the states under Article V of the Constitution,” David Walker, the former Comptroller General of the United States who was responsible for running the government’s General Accountability Office (GAO) from 1998 to 2008, told the Epoch Times in a conference call.

Walker currently is a co-founder of LUVCC.

Historic Inflation Headwinds

The issue takes on added impetus as the country faces historic inflation of double digits as the producer price index hit 11.3 percent in June according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That number foreshadows higher inflation for consumers (CPI) in the near-term, rivaling, if not outdoing, the disastrous inflation under President Jimmy Carter.

Because of changes to how inflation is calculated now compared to the Carter years, one economist,

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