Budget Process: Testimony of Dr. Robert D. Reischauer, Director, Congressional Budget Office : Hearing Before the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session ... March 4, 1993, 4. sējumsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1993 - 71 lappuses |
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... measures , no budget procedure is likely to force them into some agreement . However , if the President and Congress can agree on and enact a painful package of spending cuts and tax increases , budget proce- dures that highlight and ...
... measures , no budget procedure is likely to force them into some agreement . However , if the President and Congress can agree on and enact a painful package of spending cuts and tax increases , budget proce- dures that highlight and ...
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... measures would apply only to discre- tionary spending which represents less than 40 percent of the budget , and in recent years has been a shrinking proportion of the total . It should be remembered also that discretionary spending is ...
... measures would apply only to discre- tionary spending which represents less than 40 percent of the budget , and in recent years has been a shrinking proportion of the total . It should be remembered also that discretionary spending is ...
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... measures for reducing various entitlements . If the situation of total entitle- ments were to exceed a certain level , then the following specific measures would go into effect . For example , Social Security re- duced by 1 percent ...
... measures for reducing various entitlements . If the situation of total entitle- ments were to exceed a certain level , then the following specific measures would go into effect . For example , Social Security re- duced by 1 percent ...
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... measure to overhaul all of this which had the Con- gress and the President participating and the President signing the budget resolution . But what you have to do is that you have to state what the effect is if you don't agree because ...
... measure to overhaul all of this which had the Con- gress and the President participating and the President signing the budget resolution . But what you have to do is that you have to state what the effect is if you don't agree because ...
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... measures that do not pertain to fiscal policy — and what con- trols we have tried to place on putting in pure authorization bills in reconciliation ? Could you give that to us in writing ? Mr. REISCHAUER . Certainly . The reconciliation ...
... measures that do not pertain to fiscal policy — and what con- trols we have tried to place on putting in pure authorization bills in reconciliation ? Could you give that to us in writing ? Mr. REISCHAUER . Certainly . The reconciliation ...
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32. lappuse - Congress created the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget) to review the morass of agency budgetary information and to approve agency budget requests.
2. lappuse - I have a prepared statement which I will submit for the record, and I just want to take this opportunity to thank the chairman of the subcommittee, Air.
30. lappuse - NOTICE This statement is not available for public release until it is delivered at 10:00 am (EST), Wednesday, March 17, 1993.
33. lappuse - The act strengthened the congressional role in the budget process by centralizing and augmenting the Congress' capacity to budget. Thus, the House and Senate Budget Committees were created to coordinate congressional action on the budget, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) was established as a source of nonpartisan analysis and information on the budget and the economy. The budget resolution gives the Congress the ability to consider the board outlines of the budget as a whole and establishes...
10. lappuse - That it ought to go back to where it belongs, to the Congress of the United States. The Congress of the United States...
64. lappuse - Please do not hesitate to contact me if I may be of any additional assistance to you or Subcommittee staff on this important issue.
35. lappuse - The deterioration of the economy and technical reestimates of revenues and spending, especially for Medicare and Medicaid, are largely responsible for the increase in the projected deficit since 1990.
33. lappuse - That role is manifested in two major laws, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, popularly known as Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, and the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, the BEA.
34. lappuse - ... to take effect. According to the targets specified in the legislation, the budget was to be balanced by fiscal year 1991. In the meanwhile, the first Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law was replaced in September 1987 by a successor, which delayed the target for budgetary balance to fiscal year 1993. Yet the deficit did not come down. Instead of enacting the changes in laws governing revenues and spending necessary to reduce the...
47. lappuse - ... requiring the President to submit his budget only every other year. In 1993, both Vice President Gore's National Performance Review and the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress recommended that the Federal Government move to a biennial budget. Although if the timetable was followed as planned, biennial budgeting would free up the Congress to concentrate on nonbudgetary issues — such as oversight — during the nonbudgetary year, there are reasons to question whether that would actually...