Impoundment of Appropriated Funds by the President: Joint Hearings Before the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Impoundment of Funds of the Committee on Government Operations and the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, First Session on S. 373 |
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... executive impoundment of appropriated funds . This bill is referred to the ... branch has been able to seize power so brazenly only because the Con- gress ... executive branch , much less to perform its important function of over- ( 1 ) ...
... executive impoundment of appropriated funds . This bill is referred to the ... branch has been able to seize power so brazenly only because the Con- gress ... executive branch , much less to perform its important function of over- ( 1 ) ...
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... executive branch in administering the pro- grams it has enacted . Moreover , as individuals , too many of us have found it more comfortable to have someone else the President - make the hard decisions and relieve us of responsibility ...
... executive branch in administering the pro- grams it has enacted . Moreover , as individuals , too many of us have found it more comfortable to have someone else the President - make the hard decisions and relieve us of responsibility ...
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... Executive actions demands the immediate attention of the Congress and swift ... branch , and if it is not exercised in a decisive and fiscally responsible ... executive branch to expand part or all of the funds at its discretion ...
... Executive actions demands the immediate attention of the Congress and swift ... branch , and if it is not exercised in a decisive and fiscally responsible ... executive branch to expand part or all of the funds at its discretion ...
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... executive control is most readily apparent in the practice of executive impoundment of Congressionally appropriated ... branch of the federal govern- ment has already ceded a great deal of authority over the national pursestrings to the ...
... executive control is most readily apparent in the practice of executive impoundment of Congressionally appropriated ... branch of the federal govern- ment has already ceded a great deal of authority over the national pursestrings to the ...
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... executive spending discretion such as the antideficiency acts . This analysis should provide insight into what has been called an abdication of power by the Congress to the executive branch . Finally , this task force is considering the ...
... executive spending discretion such as the antideficiency acts . This analysis should provide insight into what has been called an abdication of power by the Congress to the executive branch . Finally , this task force is considering the ...
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action administration agencies amended amount Anti-Deficiency Act Antideficiency appropriated funds appropriation bill Appropriations Committee approval areas ARNOLD & PORTER assistance authority Chairman Cong Congress congressional constitutional construction Court Department Director economic EDMISTEN Education effect enacted environmental executive branch expenditures Federal fiscal year 1973 funds appropriated going Government grants gress hearings Highway Trust Fund House impound funds impoundment of funds issue item veto January June 30 legislative loans Management and Budget mandate ment million obligation Office of Management percent President President's priorities problem projects proposed question request reserves responsibility RUCKELSHAUS rural Rural Electrification Act Secretary BUTZ Senator CHILES Senator ERVIN Senator FULBRIGHT Senator METCALF Senator MUSKIE Senator PERCY Separation of Powers Sess SNEED specific spending Stat statement statute statutory Subcommittee taxes termination tion U.S. Senate United water pollution withholding
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Page 691 - Except as otherwise provided by law, sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the public service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made and for no others.
Page 555 - In the framework of our Constitution, the President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a lawmaker. The Constitution limits his functions in the lawmaking process to the recommending of laws he thinks wise and the vetoing of laws he thinks bad.
Page 18 - The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
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Page 137 - 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.
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