On the recordMay 16, 2000
The Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was crafted for the purpose of giving the Congress a coequal role with the President in setting the budget of the United States. That law created a process whereby the Congress, after reviewing the administration's spending and policy priorities, would establish priorities and investment levels that reflect the appropriateness of our ideas, the people's body, and the people we represent. This bill turns that initiative on its head. The joint resolution proposal brings the President into this Chamber and gives him three cracks at the budget ball; his budget, our budget, and the appropriation bills. That is a formula for failure. That is a formula for surrender of the prerogatives of the legislative body to the executive body. Some of the advocates for this bill decry the 1990 budget summit, but, ironically, they are creating a formula for annual budget summits.
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