Congressional Budget Process: Hearings Before the Task Force on the Budget Process of the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, to Review the Congressional Budget Process Since the Adoption of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 |
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Page 475 - STANDARDIZATION OF TERMINOLOGY, DEFINITIONS. CLASSIFICATIONS, AND CODES FOR FISCAL, BUDGETARY. AND PROGRAM-RELATED DATA AND INFORMATION Sec. 202. (a) (1) The Comptroller General of the United States, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, shall develop, establish, maintain, and publish standard terminology, definitions, classifications, and codes for Federal fiscal, budgetary, and...
Page 210 - It means having always more vacant jobs than unemployed men, not slightly fewer jobs. It means that the jobs are at fair wages, of such a kind, and so located that the unemployed men can reasonably be expected to take them...
Page 306 - ... until Congress has completed action on that bill or resolution, or both; and (2) any other procedure which is considered appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Page 145 - Commission shall establish an advisory committee to develop recommendations as to the establishment of a policy making process and structure within the executive and legislative branches of the Federal Government as a means to integrate the study of supplies and shortages of resources and commodities into the total problem of balanced national growth and development, and a system for coordinating these efforts with appropriate multiState, regional and State governmental jurisdictions.
Page 202 - II of S. 2412, were discussed in detail by representatives of the Bureau of the Budget and the Federal Security Agency in the hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor on S. 2412 March 31 and April 2, 1942. Prior to the completion of a draft of a bill which became S. 2412, the Veterans' Administration reported February 5, 1942, to the Bureau of the Budget on a preliminary draft.
Page 79 - ... surplus or deficit, if any, for each fiscal year in such period, and the estimated levels of tax expenditures (the tax expenditures budget) by major functional categories; (7) a statement of any significant changes in the proposed levels of Federal assistance to State and local governments...
Page 153 - Committee recommends that a National Growth and Development Commission be created as an independent agency in the Executive Branch of the Federal government. It should have a broad mandate to examine emerging issues of middle- to long-range growth and development, and to suggest feasible alternatives for the Congress, the President, and the public.
Page 457 - Statement of Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States Before the Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives GAO /T-AFMD -88-18 Mr.
Page 306 - It is an established rule of construction, where a phrase will bear either of two meanings, to give it that which will allow some meaning to the other parts of the instrument, and not that which will render all the others useless.
Page 332 - The Congress declares that it is essential — (1) to assure effective congressional control over the budgetary process ; (2) to provide for the congressional determination each year of the appropriate level of Federal revenues and expenditures; (3) to provide a system of impoundment control ; (4:) to establish national budget priorities; and (5) to provide for the furnishing of information by the executive branch in a manner that will assist the Congress in discharging its duties. DEFINITIONS SEC....