The Federal Budget for ...: Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations, House of RepresentativesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - Budget |
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Page 115 - Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Defense Department of Energy Department of Health, Education, and Welfare . Department of Housing and Urban Development . . Department of the Interior Department of Justice Department of Labor Department of State Department of Transportation Department of the Treasury Environmental Protection Agency General Services Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration Veterans...
Page 176 - Whenever it is determined by an officer designated in subsection (d) of this section to make apportionments and reapportionments that any amount so reserved will not be required to carry out the purposes of the appropriation concerned, he shall recommend the rescission of such amount in the manner provided in the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, for estimates of appropriations.
Page 43 - A third important dimension of the budget is the way it sorts out priorities. In formulating this budget, I have tried to achieve fairness and balance : — between the taxpayer and those who will benefit by Federal spending; — between national security and other pressing needs ; — between our own generation and the world we want to leave to our children ; — between those in some need and those most in need ; — between the programs we already have and those we would like to have ; — between...
Page 177 - In apportioning any appropriation, reserves may be established to provide for contingencies, or to effect savings whenever savings are made possible by or through changes in requirements, greater efficiency of operations, or other developments subsequent to the (late on which such appropriation was made available.
Page 23 - Argentina Barbados Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Trinidad and Tobago...
Page 42 - The budget reflects the President's sense of priorities. It reflects his best judgment of how we must choose among competing interests. And it reveals his philosophy of how the public and private spheres should be related.
Page 203 - Practically everyone familiar with its workings agrees that its failure lies in the fact that no one is made responsible for the extravagance. The estimates are a patchwork and not a structure. As a result, a great deal of the time of the committees of Congress is taken up in exploding the visionary schemes of bureau chiefs for which no administration would be willing to stand responsible.3 The Committee concluded that responsibility would have to be concentrated in the President.
Page 203 - Government ; that the estimates of expenditure needs now submitted to Congress represent only the desires of the individual departments, establishments, and bureaus ; and that these requests have been subjected to no superior revision with a view to bringing them into harmony with each other, to eliminating duplication of organization or activities, or of making them, as a whole, conform to the needs of the...
Page 94 - ... accomplish these purposes. Not only the Federal Government, but State and local governments as well, can play a significant role in this stabilization effort. Of the approximately $75 billion worth of construction money that goes to contractors in a year, $25 billion comes from the three levels of government. To meet the Nation's dire housing needs, underscored so strenuously in other parts of this...
Page 175 - Britain, registered unemployed (excluding adult students) as a percent of employed wage and salary workers plus the unemployed. With the exception of France, which does not publish an unemployment rate, these are the usually published unemployment rates for each country. Published rates shown for Germany and Great Britain cannot be computed from data contained in this table.