1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787378403321

Autore

Farrier Jasmine <1970->

Titolo

Passing the buck : Congress, the budget, and deficits / / Jasmine Farrier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

0-8131-8933-0

0-8131-7197-0

0-8131-5674-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

328.73/0778

Soggetti

Budget - United States

Budget process - United States

Finance, Public - United States

Budget deficits - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Origins and significance of delegation of power -- Reforming the reforms : a brief history of congressional budgeting -- 1974 Budget Act : Congress takes control -- Congress attacks deficits (and itself) with Gramm-Rudman-Hollings -- Old problems and new tools of self-restraint : the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 -- Stop us before we spend again : the Line-Item Veto Act of 1996 -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

In the past thirty years, Congress has dramatically changed its response to unpopular deficit spending. While the landmark Congressional Budget Act of 1974 tried to increase congressional budgeting powers, new budget processes created in the 1980's and 1990's were all explicitly designed to weaken member, majority, and institutional budgeting prerogatives. These later reforms shared the premise that Congress cannot naturally forge balanced budgets without new automatic mechanisms and enhanced presidential oversight. So Democratic majorities in Congress gave new budgeting powers to Presidents Reagan



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953910403321

Autore

Cobbett William <1763-1835., >

Titolo

The opinions of William Cobbett / / edited by James Grande, John Stevenson and Richard Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-88462-X

1-315-23796-2

1-4094-6433-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ThomasRichard H

Disciplina

941.07/3092

Soggetti

Politicians - Great Britain

Journalists - Great Britain

Great Britain Politics and government 1789-1820

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2013 by Ashgate Pub.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword by Richard Ingrams; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Cobbett's Early Life and Progress; 2 Corruption; 3 Patriotism and Nationalism; 4 Parliamentary Reform; 5 Villains and Pet Hates; 6 Sound Money and Cottage Economy; 7 Religion, Medievalism and the Gothic; 8 Love and Marriage; 9 Poverty and the Poor Laws; 10 America; 11 Scotland and Ireland; 12 Agriculture, Commerce and Industry; 13 Literature, Sensibility and the Romantics; Chronology of Cobbett's Life; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Politician, journalist, reformer, convict, social commentator and all-round thorn in the side of the establishment, Cobbett had a talent for controversial and pugnacious writing that echoes down the centuries and still rings fresh today. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of Cobbett's birth in 1763, this book provides a selection of his writings - both published and unpublished - that highlight his talents, obsessions, and concerns. This book not only brings to life the dynamic and rumbustious world of Georgian England within which Cobbett moved, but also reveals many uncanny parallels with m