Passing the buck : Congress, the budget, and deficits / Jasmine Farrier
- Bib ID:
- 3300379
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Farrier, Jasmine, 1970-
- Description:
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- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2004
- xi, 284 p. cm. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0813123356
- 0813123356
- Summary:
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"In Passing the Buck, Jasmine Farrier examines the historical record to chronicle the methods and institutional causes of congressional delegation of power, a prevailing trend in Washington regardless of the political party controlling the Capitol or the White House."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction : congressional delegation of power - now more than ever
- 1. Origins and significance of delegation of power
- 2. Reforming the reforms : a brief history of congressional budgeting
- 3. 1974 Budget Act : Congress takes control
- 4. Congress attacks deficits (and itself) with Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
- 5. Old problems and new tools of self-restraint : the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990
- 6. Stop us before we spend again : the Line-Item Veto Act of 1996
- Conclusion : understanding delegation of power.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-271) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2004
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