PSCI 3325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Congressional Budget Office, Incrementalism
18 Oct 2016
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Budgets are needed to be dealt with. Budget approvals: logrolling, opportunity for political gainsmanship. Made on fiscal year, oct 1: congress has been bad about keeping on track with the schedule, they will ask to move the schedule. They should start 16 months in advance. Sent within 15 days congress convenes in the first week of january. No legal standing, but he is required to do it. Lays it out for the white house to do. How much they want the total to be. They pass budget in different bills: education, healthcare, etc. Each committee acts independently and sometimes ends up being too much than the target. Deferrals can delay spending until the end of the fiscal year. Supplemental appropriations - make later additional appropriations for need of more money like getting involved in war. No resolutions lead to shut down, last for a few days.
