Impoundment Reporting and Review: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5193 and Related Bills (with Appendix, H.R. 8480, as Amended, with Report) ... |
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... effect savings or to fight inflation . The withholding was designed solely to shift the balance of budget priorities to those projects which the administration preferred . The same bias treatment showed in the administration's handling ...
... effect savings or to fight inflation . The withholding was designed solely to shift the balance of budget priorities to those projects which the administration preferred . The same bias treatment showed in the administration's handling ...
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... effect has been disagreed to ) to move to proceed to the con- sideration of the resolution . The motion shall be highly privileged and not de- batable . An amendment to the motion shall not be in order , nor shall it be in order to move ...
... effect has been disagreed to ) to move to proceed to the con- sideration of the resolution . The motion shall be highly privileged and not de- batable . An amendment to the motion shall not be in order , nor shall it be in order to move ...
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... effect , take the position that the American system is not operating effectively and that it is incumbent upon the administration to change that system . I may say that is not the way to change the system . Change may be desirable , but ...
... effect , take the position that the American system is not operating effectively and that it is incumbent upon the administration to change that system . I may say that is not the way to change the system . Change may be desirable , but ...
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... effect , which provides for the impoundment of funds by the President under certain special circumstances . I underline " under special circumstances , " not under all circum- stances . The relevant language of the Anti - Deficiency Act ...
... effect , which provides for the impoundment of funds by the President under certain special circumstances . I underline " under special circumstances , " not under all circum- stances . The relevant language of the Anti - Deficiency Act ...
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... effect , reduce the Congress to a subordinate role in the area of its most significant power . THE FISCAL CRISIS It is incredible but true that about one - fourth of the Nation's half- trillion dollar public debt will have accumulated ...
... effect , reduce the Congress to a subordinate role in the area of its most significant power . THE FISCAL CRISIS It is incredible but true that about one - fourth of the Nation's half- trillion dollar public debt will have accumulated ...
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60 days administration agency agree amendment amount ANDERSON Anti-Deficiency Act anti-impoundment apportionment appropriated funds appropriation bill Appropriations Committee approval areas authority to impound billion budget authority Budget Bureau CEDERBERG Chairman Charles Dawes CLAWSON Comptroller concurrent resolution Cong CONGRES CONGRESS THE LIBRARY congressional Constitution Court DANIELSON debt defense DELANEY disapproval economy effect savings enacted executive branch faithfully executed Federal fiscal gentleman going Government gress hearings House House Appropriations Committee impound funds impoundment actions impoundment of funds increase inflation issue LATTA LEGGETT legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS limit Mahon bill MATSUNAGA ment obligation passed PEPPER percent PICKLE poundment President Nixon President's priorities problem procedure programs proposal question QUILLEN reduce reserves responsibility Senator ERVIN separation of powers SISK special message specific spending ceiling statement statutory taxes Thank thing tion U.S. Congress veto vote withholding
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Page 2 - All appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution with respect to a reorganization plan shall be decided without debate.
Page 96 - 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 date on which such appropriation was made available.
Page 275 - ... (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House. §909. Terms of resolution For the purpose of sections 908-913 of this title, "resolution...
Page 70 - It is believed to be one of the chief merits of the American system of written constitutional law, that all the powers intrusted to government, whether State or national, are divided into the three grand departments, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. That the functions appropriate to each of these branches of government shall be vested in a separate body of public servants...
Page 2 - ... (A) When the committee has reported, or has been discharged from further consideration of, a resolution, it shall be at any time thereafter in order (even though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution.
Page 2 - No amendment to, or motion to recommit, the resolution shall be in order, and it shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.
Page 2 - House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House. (b) As used in this section, the term "resolution...
Page 2 - For the purposes of subsection (a) — (1) continuity of session shall be considered as broken only by an adjournment of the Congress sine die ; but (2) in the computation of the sixty-day period there shall be excluded the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain.
Page 70 - The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was, not to avoid friction, but, by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three departments, to save the people from autocracy.
Page 102 - ... by law, or for objects required or authorized by law without reference to the amounts annually appropriated therefor, shall, on or before the beginning of each fiscal year, be so apportioned by monthly or other allotments as to prevent expenditures in one portion of the year which may necessitate deficiency or additional appropriations to complete the service of the fiscal year for which said appropriations are made...