The Indiana Capital Chronicle covered Monday’s press conference in Indianapolis on the urgency of fixing the national debt. Featured speakers included Gov. Mike Braun, State Comptroller Elise Nieshalla, ALEC President and Chief Economist Jonathan Williams, and others.

Nieshalla recalled asking Jonathan Williams, the president and chief economist at the American Legislative Exchange Council, if there was “any way you could turn this … into a model resolution and get it passed in as many of the 50 states as possible?”

ALEC, which promotes model conservative legislation to state lawmakers, finalized the model last summer. Ten other states are weighing the resolution now, per Nieshalla.

“We’re so excited today to launch this national effort, from an ALEC perspective, to help educate the American people, and to state legislators across the country, (about) the dire state of affairs of our national debt and what can be done about it,” Williams said.

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“Voters approved a balanced budget amendment to the state constitution in 2018, after it passed two successive classes of the General Assembly. ALEC has also adopted that as a model. “We think it’s the gold standard,” Williams said.”