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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... legislative outcomes of its structures and procedures. To satisfy constituent demands and to get reelected, legislators often put spending pressures on the budget while resisting tax increases, even if their constituents criticized ...
... legislative histories. And even as annual budget deficits began to decline around the mid-1990s, the Line–Item Veto Act and near success of two balanced budget amendment proposals further demonstrate an extraordinarily deep, almost ...
... legislative action and rhetoric behind budget reform, under a variety of political and fiscal circumstances, yield ... legislators, committees, chambers, regional blocs, and parties—can raise scholarly hackles. But such challenges need ...
... legislators. When legislative behavior turns out differently on both counts in recent decades, it is important to investigate why and how these changes matter. In this chapter, I argue that strategic explanations of delegation do not ...
... legislators might want to shift the blame to automatic processes or outside institutions for spending cuts and/or ... legislators. Delegation to external entities and automatic processes mitigate legislators' personal powers through ...
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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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