Passing the Buck: Congress, the Budget, and Deficits

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University 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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List of Tables
Origins and Significance of Delegation of Power
A Brief History of Congressional Budgeting
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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Jasmine Farrier is assistant professor of political science at the University of Louisville.

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