Congress and the dilemma of economic policy / Lance T. Leloup -- Getting, using, and misusing economic information / Robert D. Reischauer -- Budget control in a redistributive environment / John W. Ellwood -- The politics of subtraction / Naomi Caiden -- Congress and redistribution / John Ferejohn -- The cry-and-sigh syndrome / Robert Pastor -- Tax policy / Catherine E. Rudder -- Making regulatory policy / Mark V. Nadel -- The distributive Congress / Allen Schick