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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... regarding the most important domestic function of any government: allocating resources and services in a budget. Although Congress is unique among legislatures in the world for its vast deliberative and procedural powers to shape the ...
... Regarding member-level decisions to support delegation of power, it is not too controversial to relate almost all legislators' actions to their desire for reelection, credit, and blame avoidance. David R. Mayhew3 famously writes that ...
... regarding power shifts to administrative agencies4 and the president on foreign policy.5 Applying these points to budget politics, legislators might want to shift the blame to automatic processes or outside institutions for spending ...
... Regarding the institutional effects of members' reelection obsessions, David Mayhew makes a bold and very much underappreciated statement about the significance of such individualism: “If members hope to spend careers in Congress, they ...
... regarding pork-barreling, logrolling, committee fragmentation, and other related tensions between being “effective” and “responsive,” as Epstein and O'Halloran emphasize.16 However, Epstein and O'Halloran underestimate the extent of the ...
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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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