Passing the Buck: Congress, the Budget, and DeficitsUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2021. gada 14. dec. - 296 lappuses In the past thirty years, Congress has dramatically changed its response to unpopular deficit spending. While the landmark Congressional Budget Act of 1974 tried to increase congressional budgeting powers, new budget processes created in the 1980s and 1990s were all explicitly designed to weaken member, majority, and institutional budgeting prerogatives. These later reforms shared the premise that Congress cannot naturally forge balanced budgets without new automatic mechanisms and enhanced presidential oversight. So Democratic majorities in Congress gave new budgeting powers to Presidents Reagan and Bush, and then Republicans did the same for President Clinton. Passing the Buck examines how Congress is increasing delegation of a wide variety of powers to the president in recent years. Jasmine Farrier assesses why institutional ambition in the early 1970s turned into institutional ambivalence about whether Congress is equipped to handle its constitutional duties. |
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... arguing that Congress could not control the budget through normal legislative procedures. The very processes and structures that channeled constituent voices and demands into the system were ironically to blame for the deficits reviled ...
... arguments, rather than “stop them before they spend again.” Along these lines, many members conveyed an image of institutional fear and self-loathing of Congress's most basic representative and legislative duties, in part because these ...
... arguments and patterns that are deeper than short-term policy and electoral strategies, even as these latter calculations are integral to the moment's political fray. This argument is developed throughout the book. In the two chapters ...
... arguments is the closeness of federal spending patterns to majority preferences of the Congress after the delegation has taken place. But they do not ponder whether even better outcomes were possible had the power been kept internally ...
... argument was fundamentally protective of both the president's and the Congress's budgeting powers. These different perspectives are seen in a Senate Judiciary Committee report: “Washington has not balanced the Federal budget since 1969 ...
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Congress Attacks Deficits and Itself with GrammRudmanHollings | |
The Budget | |
The LineItem Veto Act of 1996 | |
Understanding Delegation of Power | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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