[Publius]

Actually, the count for a balanced budget amendment is 28, not 32. The website hasn't updated the count with the results of House legal counsel's audit last year of the Archivist's pile of applications to include rescissions and reapplications.

The audit reduced the count from 34 to 26, and this year 2 more states piled on to make it 28.

[betty boop]

Thank you ever so much, dear Publius, for correcting the record here at FR.

You remind us of what an arduous, uphill climb getting Congress to CALL an Article V COS is, in the first place.

Have you had any news that the work of the National Archivist has improved, since Boehner created a special office within the National Archives, dedicated to research, adjudicate, and streamline aggregation matters; and caused that office to be filled, last January IIRC?