Federal Budget Making Process

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Federal Budget Making Process
Members Jaime Gremillion, Leah Biernacki, Cody
Mr. Cool Bell, Austin Terrill, Amanda
Tamny Thesis Over the past ten years, the
conflict over the federal budget has escalated
significantly. The following five factors became
more apparent causes of this conflict concept of
separation of powers, concept of divided
government, concept of interest group politics,
politics of discretionary spending, and politics
of congressional committee structure.
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Intro to Federal Budget Making Process

• Intro to Federal Budget
• The Presidents budget request
• The congressional budget resolution
• The terms of the budget resolution
• Budget Reconciliation

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Terms

• Partisan Politics
• Policy Gridlock 
• Divided (unified) Government
• Discretionary Spending
• Interest Group

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Discretionary Spending
A. Conflict between political parties and
their views Education B. Problems
in divided government Bushs spending
and overall budget C. Rules and Appropriation
Acts Budget Enforcement Act of 1990
Tennessee Schools War with
Iraq
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Divided Government

• Examples
• Clinton/ 103rd Congress
•  
• A. Inability to forge winning congressional
  coalitions
• B. Strong party discipline
•  
• Reagan/ Carter early 80s
•  A. Largest peacetime deficits in US history

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Separation of Powers

• A. Differences of opinion on what to do with
  money
• Budget and Impound Act
• Pres. Clinton- money on national defense
• Congress- national debt  

• B. How to get money
• Pres. Needs more money but also wants to
  promise tax cut
• Congress- cuts on spending help tax cuts

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Interest Group Politics
A. The interest groups have conflict with
Congress Reconciliation
hearings B. The conflicts between committees
and sub-committees and interest
groups   Advertising about
welfare reform C. Politicians favor certain
interest groups   Help interest
groups to make more of the budget  
Example American for a Happy Tomorrow protest
the federal budget cuts
Natural Resource Committee to the Senate of
Energy and Natural Resource Committee
Child Welfare League of
America to House of Ways and Means
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Congressional Committee Structure

• A.The House and Senate budget committees are
  responsible for
• Making up reporting the budget resolution
•  Holding hearings
• Receiving views and estimates reports form
  other committees 
• Gathering information from the CBO

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Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the
most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent response
were you even close to anything that could be
considered a rational thought. Everyone in this
room is now dumber for having listened to it. I
award you no points, and may God have mercy on
your soul.
THE END