...budget request directly to Congress. Finding this process inefficient and unwieldy, 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. See, generally,...

...process are contained in two laws. The first is the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. That law created the Bureau of the Budget — now the Office of Management and Budget — and the General Accounting Office. In addition, the Budget and Accounting Act required the President...

...Board on May 9, 1933. When the Board was abolished March 10, 1942, its functions were transferred to the Bureau of the Budget, now the Office of Management and Budget, by Executive Order No. 9094. The basic survey specifications continued in effect. Bureau of the Budget...

...process are contained in two laws. The first is the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. That law created the Bureau of the Budget — now the Office of Management and Budget — and the General Accounting Office. In addition, the Budget and Accounting Act required the President...

...to gain valuable information on early childhood education on a low budget (Rivlin & Timpane 1975). The Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget) supported the planned variation concept as a step toward the utilization of rational choice as a basis...

...full accountability throughout government. To accomplish this mission, we are prepared to follow Che federal dollar wherever it goes and to evaluate the...were created in 1921, the outgrowth of efforts at tHac time to modernize federal budgeting and accounting practices after World War I. In return for...

...Willis Shapley is also mentioned in the text. In the early 1960s, he was the chief examiner of NASA in the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget). He was shrewd and thoughtful in his budget and management critiques. In 1965, he left the Bureau of...

...partisan interests. Achieving and maintaining objectivity has always been a foundation for GAO work. Both GAO and the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office...for creation of the Budget Bureau, which centralized budget authority of the executive branch in the Office of the President, Congress insisted upon creation...

...federal government and in response to specific statutes.1 The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921' created the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget) in the executive branch and GAO as an agency independent of the executive branch. The law consolidated...

...government and in response to specific statutes. 1 The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 3 created the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget) in the executive branch and GAO as an agency independent of the executive branch. The law consolidated...