3 Conventional wisdom.

• Position: STATELINE - Federal balanced budget amendment

Three Republican legislators from Missouri,

Senators Bob Dixon and Jay Wasson, along with Representative Eric Burlison, have filed bills for Missouri to join the 27 states that have approved petitions calling for a constitutional convention. They want to pass a federal balanced budget amendment. "I think 80 percent of the problems my average constituent has with Washington, D.C., would be solved if Washington, D.C., had to balance their budget," Wasson told the Springfield News-Leader...