Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, a favorite of the small government, anti-tax tea party movement, said the House position was proof Republicans want to compromise and "hardly a radical idea." But the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, said that bill with a balanced-budget amendment doesn't have the needed support in the Senate.
"This notion that we have to change the Constitution to do what we were elected to do is just plain wrong," Durbin said. Both senators spoke on "Meet the Press."
Lew, who also appeared on CNN's "State of the Union," also did not like the idea.
"What these ideas do is say let's kick the can down the road so that others will deal with it," he said. "The challenge is for Washington now to do the job the American people sent us here to do."
DeMint said the United States is on course for a financial disaster and that lawmakers have "to draw a line in the sand now because a day of reckoning is going to come." Oakey Replica Sunglasses
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