...portion of it. Such outcome-oriented rules and procedures have been put in place by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (popularly known as Gramm-Rudman-Hollings), and are included in proposed reforms such as a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution or caps on...

...decisions. Such outcome-oriented rules and procedures have been put in place by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (popularly...Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) and the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (BEA). Although reforms such as the Budget and Accounting Act and the Budget Act have certainly improved the...

...specifically intended to reduce the deficit. That role is manifest in two major laws — the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 — popularly...— and the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (BEA). According to the targets specified in the legislation, the budget was to be balanced by fiscal year...

...specifically intended to reduce the deficit. That role is manifested in two major laws, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, popularly...Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, and the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, the BEA. Gramm-Rudman-Hollings had a single goal, to reduce the size of the deficit to specified levels...

...that are often difficult to predict. That role is manifested in two major laws, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, popularly...Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, and the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, the BEA. Gramm-Rudman-Hollings had a single goal, to reduce the size of the deficit to specified levels...