Working Papers on House Committee Organization and Operation : Congress Versus the Budget

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Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

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Also poses alternative suggestions for institutional changes to appropriations and authorizations procedures. Provides overview of proposals made to date in three general categories: resource impro...

Also poses alternative suggestions for institutional changes to appropriations and authorizations procedures.

Provides overview of proposals made to date in three general categories: resource improvements of committees through acquisition of more staff, information, and time; power improvements to constrain executive discretion; and institutional improvements to increase Congress' responsibility for total spending, determining priorities, and to end fragmentation of budget choices.

Report by Allen Schick of CRS, as part of a continuing series of studies on methods of improving congressional committee operations. Reviews various proposals to reform budgetary institutions and procedures.

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