...responsible for much of the problem. Perhaps still more critical for the process is the distribution of jurisdictions over components of the budget among...relative priorities among spending programs for the most part is made solely within the context of the bill before Congress. In dealing with these problems,...

...responsibility to decide whether or not total outlays are appropriate in view of the current situation. *As a result, each spending bill tends to be considered by Congress as a separate entity, and there is very little assessment of relative priorities among different spending programs. The situation...

...billion; and the 1974 estimate is $28 billion. (On a unified budget basis, the deficits were in 1970, $3 billion; 1971, $23 billion; 1972, $23 billion;...Federal funds budget. The unified budget concept which has been used from 1969 on, although decreasing the size of the budget deficit, would differ only In...

...critical for the process is the distribution of jurisdictions [over spending] among several different committees. As a result each spending bill tends to...assessment of relative priorities among spending programs is made solely within the context of the bill then before Congress. 3 The committee identified a number...

...responsible for deciding "whether or not total outlays are appropriate in view of the current situation. ... As a result, each spending bill tends to be considered...relative priorities among spending programs for the most part is made solely within the context of the bill before Congress."37 This description was overdrawn...