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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... 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 deficit spending in the abstract. In order to ...
... procedures. The very processes and structures that channeled constituent voices and demands into the system were ironically to blame for the deficits reviled in popular opinion. Supporters of reducing Congress's powers said that ...
... procedures in response to problems in congressional budgeting raised by legislators, economists, and budget experts since the late 1970s. Such complexities in institutional development are deeper than tensions between members' various ...
... procedures, which theoretically constrain the president as well as the Congress, were included in almost all reform movements. It is also noteworthy that Congress made two major attempts to recapture various parts of its spending powers ...
... procedures in which “appropriations from Congress were to be treated as a mere ceiling on expenditures rather than as a directive or invitation to spend the full amount.”11 Dawes also created the practice of “central clearance,” in ...
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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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