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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... president's, even though both share responsibility over the federal budget. As the nation's battle against annual budget deficits escalated between the early 1970s and late 1990s, Congress's conception of its rightful budgeting powers ...
... president are both under pressure to deliver high levels of entitlements and federal discretionary spending while trying not to raise taxes to pay for it all. But as Congress is often perceived as being more directly and openly ...
... president when such decentralization inadvertently, or by design, disadvantages party leaders. And as party leaders regained their centralizing strength in recent years, a political-cultural shift against the federal government's powers ...
... president. While fiscal policy was certainly contentious prior to the twentieth century and the executive branch enjoyed moments of dominance in domestic and foreign affairs, there was no successful congressional movement to augment ...
... president-appointed director, and the General Accounting Office to oversee and audit agency spending.9 The president's budget was to be a unified recommendation based on agency requests to ensure better control over spending totals ...
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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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