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- Title
PRESIDENTIAL SPENDING DISCRETION AND CONGRESSIONAL CONTROLS.
- Authors
FISHER, LOUIS
- Abstract
The article discusses executive spending discretion, its impact on public policy and some of the techniques and procedures used by the U.S. Congress to preserve its discretionary power over spending. It examines the scope of the spending discretion by the President with respect to such areas as lump-sum appropriations, covert financing and impoundment. Legislative remedies for the withholding of funds by the President are considered. Also noted is the power of the General Accounting Office (GAO) to decide on the legality of executive spending. In conclusion, the Congress is given the responsibility of making public policy on controlling expenditures clear and consistent.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ADMINISTRATIVE discretion (Law); GOVERNMENT policy; EXECUTIVE impoundment of appropriated funds; UNITED States. General Accounting Office; PUBLIC spending
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1972, Vol 37, Issue 1, p135
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1191125