ROLL CALL: Udall Expects Senate Vote on His Poison-Pill Balanced Budget Amendment.

Sen. Mark Udall predicted Tuesday that his proposed balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, which contains a poison pill for the GOP, would get a vote in the Senate by the end of the year.

The vote would fulfill a requirement created by the deficit reduction and debt ceiling package that President Barack Obama signed Tuesday. Both chambers must vote on a Constitutional balanced budget amendment by the end of the year under the law, but they don’t have to be able to pass it. Udall’s amendment is unlikely to attract the two-thirds majority necessary to advance because of a provision that would outlaw tax cuts for people making more than $1 million a year unless the country has a budget surplus.

They’d rather tax rich people than balance the budget, obviously. Well, you can start with my revenue-enhancement proposals.

UPDATE: Reader Steve Conklin writes: “The smartest play for the Republicans would be to give them exactly what they want. How many people actually earn a million dollar salary? Throw us in that briar patch!”

Most of those people probably voted for Obama, so yeah.