...Joint Study Committee on Budget Control. As your interim committee report points out succinctly, "* * * if Congress is to effectively maintain and carry out...the appropriate associated revenue and debt levels." I heartily applaud that statement of your convictions. I agree with it entirely. Your present endeavor,...

...Congress to establish spending priorities. However, if Congress is to effectively maintain and earry out its Constitutional power over the purse, it is...appropriate associated revenue and debt levels. Section 301(b) of PL 92-599 specifically provides that the Joint Committee shall make a full study and review...

...establish the Joint Study Committee on Budget Control. In the words of the Joint Committee: We must have an effective, permanent mechanism for budget control...the appropriate associated revenue and debt levels. There were many individual legislative proposals introduced in the early part of 1973 aimed at regaining...