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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... votes on these delegations were often quite partisan—members such as Senator Cohen made “stop us before we spend again” arguments, rather than “stop them before they spend again.” Along these lines, many members conveyed an image of ...
... votes, and, the most interesting piece of the puzzle, how members of Congress publicly viewed their own representative powers and duties in light of the pressures of deficit reduction. This intriguing rhetoric of institutional self ...
... vote, a legislator might support an act in anticipation that the issue will be raised by a challenger in the next election,6 such as “incumbent X voted against fiscal responsibility in Washington by voting against the line-item veto ...
... vote independently. Individual members are also distracted by constituent service and reelection, and this parochialism can lead to episodes of intra-branch deadlock and immobilization that harm institutional power. In recent years ...
... vote. Although the balanced budget amendment and biennial budgeting proposals are very different from each other, both share the premise of other post-1974 reform: for the federal government to have a more responsible fiscal policy ...
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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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