Budget

A resolution providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 7130) to amend the Rules of the House of Representatives and the Senate to improve congressional control over budgetary outlay and receipt totals, to provide for a Legislative Budget Director and staff, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1973

States that upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to move that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 7130) to amend the Rules of the House of Representatives and the Senate to improve congressional control over budgetary outlay and receipt totals, to provide for a Legislative Budget Director and staff, and for other purposes. Provides that after general debate, which shall be confined to the bill and shall continue not to exceed three hours, to be equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Rules, the bill shall be read for amendment under the five-minute rule. Stipulates that it shall be in order to consider without the intervention of any point of order the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Rules now printed in the bill as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule, and said substitute shall be read for amendment by titles instead of by sections. States that at the conclusion of such consideration, the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted, and any Member may demand a separate vote in the House on any amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to the bill or to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute. Provides that the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit with or without instructions.

AIDE-MEMOIRE ON THE FIXING ON THE ECSC LEVIES AND OPERATING BUDGET FOR 1974

European Union · European Commission · 7 November 1973

A bill to amend the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to require the advice and consent of the Senate for future appointments to the Offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1973

Requires, under the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, the advice and consent of the Senate for future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

A bill to amend the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to require the advice and consent of the Senate for future appointments to the Offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1973

Requires, under the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, the advice and consent of the Senate for future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Budget Control Act

United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1973

Budget Control Act - Title I: Changes in the Rules of the House and Senate - Provides for the establishment in the House and Senate of a Committee on the Budget. States that on or before May 1 of each year the Congress shall complete action on a budget resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United Stated Government for the fiscal year beginning on October 1 of that year. Specifies matters required to be set forth in the budget resolution and matters which may be dealt with therein. States that it shall not be in order in either the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any resolution providing for the sine die adjournment of any regualr session of the Congress unless the Congress has theretofore during such session adopted a budget resolution. Provides that on or before August 1 of each year the Congress shall complete action on all annual appropriation bills which shall be held by the Congress pending conformance with the final budget resolution and enactment of the budget reconciliation bill, which shall contain such rescissions or amendments to the appropriations bills as are required to conform with budget authority and budget outlay totals of the budget resolution. Requires the Legislative Budget Director to issue periodic reports detailing and tabulating the progress of congressional action on legislation providing new budget authority and specifying budget outlays, including up-to-date status reports on all new budget authority legislation in both Houses. Title II: Legislative Budget Director and Staff and Budget Data - States that the Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall have a Joint Legislative Budget Staff, headed by a Legistive Budget Director. Authorizes the Legislative Budget Director, with the approval of the chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House or the Senate, to secure directly from any executive department, office, board, bureau, agency, independent establishment, or instrumentality of the Government, information relating to the functions of the Joint Legislative Budget Staff. Directs the Joint Legislative Budget Staff to develop for the Committees on the Budget of the Houses and Senate information with respect to existing and proposed legislation which will form the basis of estimating the effect on budget outlays of such legislation not only on the current fiscal year but also for the next three to five fiscal years. Provides that the fiscal year of the Federal Government shall commence on October 1 (presently July 1) effective in the calendar year 1974.

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 15 October 1973

Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1973

Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

Budget Control Act

United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1973

Budget Control Act - Title I: Changes in Rules of House - Establishes in the House of Representatives a Committee on the Budget consisting of 21 members. Refers to the Committee matters relating to: (1) the establishment of an overall limitation on budget outlays, and an overall limitation on new budget authority; (2) the determination of the overall level of Federal revenues, and the overall level of the public debt of the United States; (3) the determination of the appropriate level of surplus or deficit in the budget in the light of economic conditions and, (4) the allocation of the overall limitation on budget outlays, and the overall limitation on new budgetary authority. Requires the Committee to report during each regular session of Congress concerning matters referred to the Committee and to make continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays of existing and proposed legislation and to report the results of these studies to the House of Representatives. Declares that annually, on or before May 1, Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year beginning July 1. States that the concurrent resolution shall include with respect to budget outlays and with respect to new budget authority: (1) a general contingency reserve (for allocation only by a subsequent concurrent resolution on the budget) for possible new legislation (including enlargements of existing programs and activities); and (2) an emergency reserve (in amounts which do not exceed 2 percent of the amount of budget outlays otherwise allocated to the Committees on Appropriations and 2 percent of the amount of new budget authority otherwise allocated to such committees) which shall be available only for allocation by the Committees on Appropriations to specific programs and activities (or to subcommittees) to meet emergencies and other unforeseen contingencies. Provides for other matters which may be dealt with in the concurrent resolution. Sets forth a timetable for the first concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. Requires Congress to adopt a final concurrent resolution on the budget before adjourning and provides for consideration of concurrent resolution to be expedited. States the requirements for amendments to concurrent resolutions. Provides that legislation dealing with the congressional budget must be handled by budget committees and that the concurrent resolution on budget must be adopted before appropriations and changes in revenues and public debt limit are made. Sets forth the requirements for legislation and amendments providing new budget authority. Places limitations on new permanent budget authority and on new spending authority. Requires the legislative committees to authorize the enactment of new budget authority before the beginning of the fiscal year. Authorizes the House Committee on Appropriations to consider and to report legislation rescinding budget authority. Provides for technical and conforming amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives, as well as amendments to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and 1970. Title II: Legislative Budget Director and Staff - Establishes a Joint Legislative Budget Staff headed by a Legislative Budget Director appointed by the record vote of a majority of the members of the Committee on the Budget of each House, and provides for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Legislative Budget Director to secure directly from any executive department or instrumentality of the government, information, data, estimates, and statistics relating to the function of the Joint Legislative Budget Staff. Directs the Joint Legislative Budget Staff to develop methods of using computers and other techniques for the analysis of information to improve not only the quantative but the qualitative evaluation of budgetary requirements.

Budget Control Act

United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1973

Budget Control Act - Title I: Changes in Rules of House and Senate - Establishes in the House of Representatives a Committee on the Budget consisting of 21 members: 7 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 7 members from the Committee on Ways and Means, and 7 members appointed by the Speaker of the House. Provides for the selection of the Chairman of the Committee and for the filling of vacancies on the Committee. Refers to the Committee matters relating to (a) the establishment of an overall limitation on budget outlays, and an overall limitation on new budget authority; (b) the determination of the overall level of Federal revenues, and the overall level of the public debt of the United States; (c) the determination of the appropriate level of surplus or deficit in the budget in the light of economic conditions and, (d) the allocation of the overall limitation on budget outlays, and the overall limitation on new budgetary authority. Requires the Committee to report during each regular session of Congress at least two concurrent resolutions concerning matters referred to the Committee and to make continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays of existing and proposed legislation and to report the results of these studies to the House of Representatives. Establishes in the United States Senate a Committee on the Budget consisting of 15 members: 5 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 5 members from the Committee on Finance, and 5 members appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate. Grants to the Senate Committee the same matters for consideration and the same duties as the House Committee. Declares that annually, on or before May 1, Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year beginning July 1. States that the concurrent resolution shall include with respect to budget outlays and with respect to new budget authority: (1) a general contingency reserve (for allocation only by a subsequent concurrent resolution on the budget) for possible new legislation (including enlargements of existing programs and activities); and (2) an emergency reserve (in amounts which do not exceed 2 percent of the amount of budget outlays otherwise allocated to the Committees on Appropriations and 2 percent of the amount of new budget authority otherwise allocated to such committees) which shall be available only for allocation by the Committees on Appropriations to specific programs and activities (or to subcommittees) to meet emergencies and other unforeseen contingencies. Provides for other matters which may be dealt with in the concurrent resolution. Sets forth a timetable for the first concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. Requires Congress to adopt a final concurrent resoltuion on the budget before adjourning and provides for consideration of concurrent resolution to be expedited. Declares that a tax surcharge is required where the budget deficit will be greater, or the surplus will be smaller, than that determined to be appropriate. States the requirements for amendments to concurrent resolutions. Provides that legislation dealing with the congressional budget must be handled by budget committees and that the concurrent resolution on budget must be adopted before appropriations and changes in revenues and public debt limit are made. Sets forth the requirements for legislation and amendments providing new budget authority, and declares that budget authority legislation may be required to contain outlay limitations. Places limitations on new permanent budget authority and on new spending authority. Requires the legislative committees to authorize the enactment of new budget authority before the beginning of the fiscal year. Authorizes the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Appropriations to consider and to report legislation rescinding budget authority. Provides for technical and conforming amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives and to the Standing Rules of the United States Senate, as well as amendments to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and 1970. Title II: Legislative Budget Director and Staff - Establishes a Joint Legislative Budget Staff headed by a Legislative Budget Director appointed by the record vote of a majority of the members of the Committee on the Budget of each House, and provides for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Legislative Budget Director to secure directly from any executive department or instrumentality of the government, information, data, estimates, and statistics relating to the function of the Joint Legislative Budget Staff. Directs the Joint Legislative Budget Staff to develop methods of using computers and other techniques for the analysis of information to improve not only the quantative but the qualitative evaluation of budgetary requirements.

Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that certain economizing and tax reform measures shall be taken to assure through a fiscally responsible Federal budget for fiscal 1974 effective action to promote national security, stable prices, tax justice, full employment, quality education and health care, environmental protection, safe and improved living conditions in urban and rural areas, and equal opportunity for all Americans.

United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1973

Makes it the sense of Congress that: (1) equally rigorous economics shall be applied by congressional review to military, foreign assistance, space programs, and unwarranted tax preferences; and (2) Congress shall set as a target for action by the relevant committees with respect to the proposed Federal budget for fiscal 1974: (a) the realization of savings of $5,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 by paring unneeded weapons development, by reducing excessive forces in the military, and by economizing in foreign assistance and space programs, and (b) the elimination of unwarranted tax preferences in the Internal Revenue Code, to produce additional revenues of $5,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000. Declares that these budgetary resources shall be redirected to promote full employment, quality education and health care for citizens, environmental protection, safe and improved living conditions in urban and rural areas, and equal opportunities for all Americans.

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1973

Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1973

Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1973

Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

A bill to amend the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to provide the Comptroller General additional authority to audit certain expenditures.

United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1973

Provides that, notwithstanding any provision of law heretofore or hereafter enacted permitting an expenditure to be accounted for solely on the certificate of the head of a department or establishment because of the confidential or other special nature of the expenditure, the Comptroller General shall be furnished such information relating to such expenditure as he may request and access to all necessary books, documents, papers, and record, relating to such expenditure in order that he may determine whether the expenditure was, in fact, of such confidential or other special nature.

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1973

Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the balancing of the budget.

United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1973

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that on or before the fifteenth day after the beginning of each regular session of the Congress, the President shall transmit to the Congress a budget which shall set forth separately: (1) his estimate of the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during the ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing; (2) his recommendations with respect to outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year; and (3) if such recommendations exceed such estimate, a surtax rate which the President determines to be necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers occurring during such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays. Provides that during the first quarter of each fiscal year, and during the third quarter of each fiscal year, the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall: (1) estimate the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during such fiscal year; (2) estimate outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such fiscal year; and (3) (A) if such estimate of outlays exceeds such estimate of receipts, determine a surtax rate which the Speaker considers necessary to be applied, with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers remaining in such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays; or (B) if such estimate of outlays equals such estimate of receipts, determine that no surtax rate is necessary to be applied. Requires the President during the last month of each fiscal year to review whether the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, for such year will be less than the outlays for that fiscal year. Provides that if he finds that such receipts are going to be less than such outlays, he shall determine a surtax rate which he considers necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, so that taxes received by the Government from such surtax, when added to other receipts of the Government, will equal such outlays. Authorizes the suspension of the provisions of this Amendment in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress (including a state of war formally declared by Congress) by a concurrent resolution, agreed to by a rollcall vote of three-fourths of all the Members of each House of Congress, with each such resolution providing the period of time (not exceeding one year) during which those provisions are to be suspended.

Budget Control Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973

Budget Control Act - Title I: Changes in Rules of House and Senate - Establishes in the House of Representatives a Committee on the Budget consisting of 21 members: 7 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 7 members from the Committee on Ways and Means, and 7 members appointed by the Speaker of the House. Provides for the selection of the Chairman of the Committee and for the filling of vacancies on the Committee. Refers to the Committee matters relating to (a) the establishment of an overall limitation on budget outlays, and an overall limitation on new budget authority; (b) the determination of the overall level of Federal revenues, and the overall level of the public debt of the United States; (c) the determination of the appropriate level of surplus or deficit in the budget in the light of economic conditions and, (d) the allocation of the overall limitation on budget outlays, and the overall limitation on new budgetary authority. Requires the Committee to report during each regular session of Congress at least two concurrent resolutions concerning matters referred to the Committee and to make continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays of existing and proposed legislation and to report the results of these studies to the House of Representatives. Establishes in the United States Senate a Committee on the Budget consisting of 15 members: 5 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 5 members from the Committee on Finance, and 5 members appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate. Grants to the Senate Committee the same matters for consideration and the same duties as the House Committee. Declares that annually, on or before May 1, Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year beginning July 1. States that the concurrent resolution shall include with respect to budget outlays and with respect to new budget authority: (1) a general contingency reserve (for allocation only by a subsequent concurrent resolution on the budget) for possible new legislation (including enlargements of existing programs and activities); and (2) an emergency reserve (in amounts which do not exceed 2 percent of the amount of budget outlays otherwise allocated to the Committees on Appropriations and 2 percent of the amount of new budget authority otherwise allocated to such committees) which shall be available only for allocation by the Committees on Appropriations to specific programs and activities (or to subcommittees) to meet emergencies and other unforeseen contingencies. Provides for other matters which may be dealt with in the concurrent resolution. Sets forth a timetable for the first concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. Requires Congress to adopt a final concurrent resoltuion on the budget before adjourning and provides for consideration of concurrent resolution to be expedited. Declares that a tax surcharge is required where the budget deficit will be greater, or the surplus will be smaller, than that determined to be appropriate. States the requirements for amendments to concurrent resolutions. Provides that legislation dealing with the congressional budget must be handled by budget committees and that the concurrent resolution on budget must be adopted before appropriations and changes in revenues and public debt limit are made. Sets forth the requirements for legislation and amendments providing new budget authority, and declares that budget authority legislation may be required to contain outlay limitations. Places limitations on new permanent budget authority and on new spending authority. Requires the legislative committees to authorize the enactment of new budget authority before the beginning of the fiscal year. Authorizes the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Appropriations to consider and to report legislation rescinding budget authority. Provides for technical and conforming amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives and to the Standing Rules of the United States Senate, as well as amendments to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and 1970. Title II: Legislative Budget Director and Staff - Establishes a Joint Legislative Budget Staff headed by a Legislative Budget Director appointed by the record vote of a majority of the members of the Committee on the Budget of each House, and provides for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Legislative Budget Director to secure directly from any executive department or instrumentality of the government, information, data, estimates, and statistics relating to the function of the Joint Legislative Budget Staff. Directs the Joint Legislative Budget Staff to develop methods of using computers and other techniques for the analysis of information to improve not only the quantative but the qualitative evaluation of budgetary requirements.

Budget Information Allocation Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973

Budget Information Allocation Act - Requires the annual budget submitted by the President to set forth: (1) the amount proposed for expenditure in each State and each congressional district therein under each program proposed in the budget; (2) the amount by which Federal expenditures for each program would increase or decrease the previous fiscal years total amount or allocation in each State and each congressional district; and (3) the extent to which any function or activity of a Federal program would be expanded or restricted in each State or congressional district pursuant to any change from the previous fiscal year. Directs the President, through the Office of Management and Budget, to develop and implement projects for the improved gathering, compiling, analyzing, publishing, and disseminating of statistical information by the various agencies in the executive branch of the Government. Provides for a semiannual report to Congress by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget describing the requests made for budgetary information and summary data tables. Authorizes the Comptroller General to review the State and congressional budget estimates required under this Act. Authorizes the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in his role of assisting any Congressional committee having jurisdiction over revenue or appropriations, to furnish the Congress such suppporting information as may be necessary to correct inaccurate State and congressional district allotments in the budget. ((Amends 31 U.S.C. 11(a)(2), 11(b), 18b; 31 U.S.C. 1153(b), 1154(c), 20(b))

Budget Control Act

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1973

Budget Control Act - Title I: Changes in Rules of House and Senate - Establishes in the House of Representatives a Committee on the Budget consisting of 21 members: 5 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 5 members from the Committee on Ways and Means, and 11 members who are members of other Committees. Provides for the selection of the chairman of the Committee. Refers to the Committee matters relating to: (1) the establishment of an overall limitation on budget outlays, and an overall limitation on new budget authority; (2) the determination of the overall level of Federal revenues, and the overall level of the public debt of the United States; (3) the determination of the appropriate level of surplus or deficit in the budget in the light of economic conditions and; (4) the allocation of the overall limitation on budget outlays, and the overall limitation on new budgetary authority. Requires the Committee to report during each regular session of Congress at least two concurrent resolutions concerning matters referred to the Committee and to make continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays of existing and proposed legislation and to report the results of these studies to the House of Representatives. Establishes in the United States Senate a Committee on the Budget consisting of 17 members: 4 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 4 members from the Committee on Finance, and 9 members who are members of other Committees. Grants to the Senate Committee the same matters for consideration and the same duties as the House Committee. Declares that annually, on or before July 1, Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year beginning January 1 of the next year. States that the concurrent resolution shall include with respect to budget outlays and with respect to new budget authority: (1) a general contingency reserve (for allocation only by a subsequent concurrent resolution on the budget) for possible new legislation (including enlargements of existing programs and activities); and (2) an emergency reserve (in amounts which do not exceed 2 percent of the amount of budget outlays otherwise allocated to the Committees on Appropriations and 2 percent of the amount of new budget authority otherwise allocated to such committees) which shall be available only for allocation by the Committees on Appropriations to specific programs and activities (or to subcommittees) to meet emergencies and other unforeseen contingencies. Provides for other matters which may be dealt with in the concurrent resolution. Sets forth a timetable for the first concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. Requires Congress to adopt a final concurrent resolution on the budget before adjourning and provides for consideration of concurrent resolution to be expedited. Declares that a tax surcharge is required where the budget deficit will be greater, or the surplus will be smaller, than that determined to be appropriate. States the requirements for amendments to concurrent resolutions. Provides that legislation dealing with the congressional budget must be handled by budget committees and that the concurrent resolution on budget must be adopted before appropriations and changes in revenues and public debt limit are made. Sets forth the requirements for legislation and amendments providing new budget authority, and declares that budget authority legislation may be required to contain outlay limitations. Places limitations on new permanent budget authority and on new spending authority. Requires the legislative committees to authorize the enactment of new budget authority before the beginning of the fiscal year. Authorizes the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Appropriations to consider and to report legislation rescinding budget authority. Provides for technical and conforming amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives and to the Standing Rules of the United States Senate, as well as amendments to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and 1970. Title II: Legislative Budget Director and Staff - Establishes a Joint Legislative Budget Staff headed by a Legislative Budget Director appointed by the record vote of a majority of the members of the Committee on the Budget of each House, and provides for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Legislative Budget Director to secure directly from any executive department or instrumentality of the government, information, data, estimates, and statistics relating to the function of the Joint Legislative Budget Staff. Directs the Joint Legislative Budget Staff to develop methods of using computers and other techniques for the analysis of information to improve not only the quantative but the qualitative evaluation of budgetary requirements.

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the balancing of the budget.

United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1973

Constitutional Amendment - States that on or before the fifteenth day after the beginning of each regular session of the Congress the President shall transmit to the Congress a budget which shall set forth separately: (1) his estimate of the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during the ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing; (2) his recommendations with respect to outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year; and (3) if such recommendations exceed such estimate, a surtax rate which the President determines to be necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers occurring during such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays. Provides that during the first quarter of each fiscal year, and during the third quarter of each fiscal year, the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall: (1) estimate the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during such fiscal year; (2) estimate outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such fiscal year; and (3) (A) if such estimate of outlays exceeds such estimate of receipts, determine a surtax rate which the Speaker considers necessary to be applied, with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers remaining in such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays; or (B) if such estimate of outlays equals such estimate of receipts, determine that no surtax rate is necessary to be applied. Provides that, during the last month of each fiscal year, the President shall review whether the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, for such year will be less than the outlays for that fiscal year. States that if he finds that such receipts are going to be less than such outlays, he shall determine a surtax rate which he considers necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, so that taxes received by the Government from such surtax, when added to other receipts of the Government, will equal such outlays. Requires that such surtax shall be effective, and so applied, as determined by the President only during the next succeeding fiscal year.

Budget Information Allocation Act

United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1973

Budget Information Allocation Act - Requires the annual budget submitted by the President to set forth: (1) the amount proposed for expenditure in each State and each congressional district therein under each program proposed in the budget; (2) the amount by which Federal expenditures for each program would increase or decrease the previous fiscal years total amount or allocation in each State and each congressional district; and (3) the extent to which any function or activity of a Federal program would be expanded or restricted in each State or congressional district pursuant to any change from the previous fiscal year. Directs the President, through the Office of Management and Budget, to develop and implement projects for the improved gathering, compiling, analyzing, publishing, and disseminating of statistical information by the various agencies in the executive branch of the Government. Provides for a semiannual report to Congress by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget describing the requests made for budgetary information and summary data tables. Authorizes the Comptroller General to review the State and congressional budget estimates required under this Act. Authorizes the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in his role of assisting any Congressional committee having jurisdiction over revenue or appropriations, to furnish the Congress such suppporting information as may be necessary to correct inaccurate State and congressional district allotments in the budget. ((Amends 31 U.S.C. 11(a)(2), 11(b), 18b; 31 U.S.C. 1153(b), 1154(c), 20(b))

A bill to provide that appointments to the Offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1973

Provides that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

Budget Control Act

United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1973

Budget Control Act - Title I: Changes in Rules of House and Senate - Establishes in the House of Representatives a Committee on the Budget consisting of 21 members: 5 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 5 members from the Committee on Ways and Means, and 11 members who are members of other Committees. Provides for the selection of the chairman of the Committee. Refers to the Committee matters relating to: (1) the establishment of an overall limitation on budget outlays, and an overall limitation on new budget authority; (2) the determination of the overall level of Federal revenues, and the overall level of the public debt of the United States; (3) the determination of the appropriate level of surplus or deficit in the budget in the light of economic conditions and; (4) the allocation of the overall limitation on budget outlays, and the overall limitation on new budgetary authority. Requires the Committee to report during each regular session of Congress at least two concurrent resolutions concerning matters referred to the Committee and to make continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays of existing and proposed legislation and to report the results of these studies to the House of Representatives. Establishes in the United States Senate a Committee on the Budget consisting of 17 members: 4 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 4 members from the Committee on Finance, and 9 members who are members of other Committees. Grants to the Senate Committee the same matters for consideration and the same duties as the House Committee. Declares that annually, on or before July 1, Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year beginning January 1 of the next year. States that the concurrent resolution shall include with respect to budget outlays and with respect to new budget authority: (1) a general contingency reserve (for allocation only by a subsequent concurrent resolution on the budget) for possible new legislation (including enlargements of existing programs and activities); and (2) an emergency reserve (in amounts which do not exceed 2 percent of the amount of budget outlays otherwise allocated to the Committees on Appropriations and 2 percent of the amount of new budget authority otherwise allocated to such committees) which shall be available only for allocation by the Committees on Appropriations to specific programs and activities (or to subcommittees) to meet emergencies and other unforeseen contingencies. Provides for other matters which may be dealt with in the concurrent resolution. Sets forth a timetable for the first concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. Requires Congress to adopt a final concurrent resolution on the budget before adjourning and provides for consideration of concurrent resolution to be expedited. Declares that a tax surcharge is required where the budget deficit will be greater, or the surplus will be smaller, than that determined to be appropriate. States the requirements for amendments to concurrent resolutions. Provides that legislation dealing with the congressional budget must be handled by budget committees and that the concurrent resolution on budget must be adopted before appropriations and changes in revenues and public debt limit are made. Sets forth the requirements for legislation and amendments providing new budget authority, and declares that budget authority legislation may be required to contain outlay limitations. Places limitations on new permanent budget authority and on new spending authority. Requires the legislative committees to authorize the enactment of new budget authority before the beginning of the fiscal year. Authorizes the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Appropriations to consider and to report legislation rescinding budget authority. Provides for technical and conforming amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives and to the Standing Rules of the United States Senate, as well as amendments to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and 1970. Title II: Legislative Budget Director and Staff - Establishes a Joint Legislative Budget Staff headed by a Legislative Budget Director appointed by the record vote of a majority of the members of the Committee on the Budget of each House, and provides for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Legislative Budget Director to secure directly from any executive department or instrumentality of the government, information, data, estimates, and statistics relating to the function of the Joint Legislative Budget Staff. Directs the Joint Legislative Budget Staff to develop methods of using computers and other techniques for the analysis of information to improve not only the quantative but the qualitative evaluation of budgetary requirements.

Budget Information Allocation Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1973

Budget Information Allocation Act - Requires the annual budget submitted by the President to set forth: (1) the amount proposed for expenditure in each State and each congressional district therein under each program proposed in the budget; (2) the amount by which Federal expenditures for each program would increase or decrease the previous fiscal years total amount or allocation in each State and each congressional district; and (3) the extent to which any function or activity of a Federal program would be expanded or restricted in each State or congressional district pursuant to any change from the previous fiscal year. Directs the President, through the Office of Management and Budget, to develop and implement projects for the improved gathering, compiling, analyzing, publishing, and disseminating of statistical information by the various agencies in the executive branch of the Government. Provides for a semiannual report to Congress by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget describing the requests made for budgetary information and summary data tables. Authorizes the Comptroller General to review the State and congressional budget estimates required under this Act. Authorizes the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in his role of assisting any Congressional committee having jurisdiction over revenue or appropriations, to furnish the Congress such suppporting information as may be necessary to correct inaccurate State and congressional district allotments in the budget. ((Amends 31 U.S.C. 11(a)(2), 11(b), 18b; 31 U.S.C. 1153(b), 1154(c), 20(b))

Budget Information Allocation Act

United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1973

Budget Information Allocation Act - Requires the annual budget submitted by the President to set forth: (1) the amount proposed for expenditure in each State and each congressional district therein under each program proposed in the budget; (2) the amount by which Federal expenditures for each program would increase or decrease the previous fiscal years total amount or allocation in each State and each congressional district; and (3) the extent to which any function or activity of a Federal program would be expanded or restricted in each State or congressional district pursuant to any change from the previous fiscal year. Directs the President, through the Office of Management and Budget, to develop and implement projects for the improved gathering, compiling, analyzing, publishing, and disseminating of statistical information by the various agencies in the executive branch of the Government. Provides for a semiannual report to Congress by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget describing the requests made for budgetary information and summary data tables. Authorizes the Comptroller General to review the State and congressional budget estimates required under this Act. Authorizes the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in his role of assisting any Congressional committee having jurisdiction over revenue or appropriations, to furnish the Congress such suppporting information as may be necessary to correct inaccurate State and congressional district allotments in the budget. ((Amends 31 U.S.C. 11(a)(2), 11(b), 18b; 31 U.S.C. 1153(b), 1154(c), 20(b))

A bill to amend the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to require the advice and consent of the Senate for future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1973

Requires the advice and consent of the Senate for future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget under the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. (Amends 31 U.S.C. 16)

Budget Information Allocation Act

United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1973

Budget Information Allocation Act - Requires the annual budget submitted by the President to set forth: (1) the amount proposed for expenditure in each State and each congressional district therein under each program proposed in the budget; (2) the amount by which Federal expenditures for each program would increase or decrease the previous fiscal years total amount or allocation in each State and each congressional district; and (3) the extent to which any function or activity of a Federal program would be expanded or restricted in each State or congressional district pursuant to any change from the previous fiscal year. Directs the President, through the Office of Management and Budget, to develop and implement projects for the improved gathering, compiling, analyzing, publishing, and disseminating of statistical information by the various agencies in the executive branch of the Government. Provides for a semiannual report to Congress by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget describing the requests made for budgetary information and summary data tables. Authorizes the Comptroller General to review the State and congressional budget estimates required under this Act. Authorizes the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in his role of assisting any Congressional committee having jurisdiction over revenue or appropriations, to furnish the Congress such suppporting information as may be necessary to correct inaccurate State and congressional district allotments in the budget. ((Amends 31 U.S.C. 11(a)(2), 11(b), 18b; 31 U.S.C. 1153(b), 1154(c), 20(b))

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1973

Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1973

Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

Budget Information Allocation Act

United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1973

Budget Information Allocation Act - Requires the annual budget submitted by the President to set forth: (1) the amount proposed for expenditure in each State and each congressional district therein under each program proposed in the budget; (2) the amount by which Federal expenditures for each program would increase or decrease the previous fiscal years total amount or allocation in each State and each congressional district; and (3) the extent to which any function or activity of a Federal program would be expanded or restricted in each State or congressional district pursuant to any change from the previous fiscal year. Directs the President, through the Office of Management and Budget, to develop and implement projects for the improved gathering, compiling, analyzing, publishing, and disseminating of statistical information by the various agencies in the executive branch of the Government. Provides for a semiannual report to Congress by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget describing the requests made for budgetary information and summary data tables. Authorizes the Comptroller General to review the State and congressional budget estimates required under this Act. Authorizes the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in his role of assisting any Congressional committee having jurisdiction over revenue or appropriations, to furnish the Congress such suppporting information as may be necessary to correct inaccurate State and congressional district allotments in the budget. ((Amends 31 U.S.C. 11(a)(2), 11(b), 18b; 31 U.S.C. 1153(b), 1154(c), 20(b))

A bill to amend the Rules of the House of Representatives and the Senate to improve congressional control over budgetary outlay and receipt totals, to provide for a Legislative Budget Director and staff, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1973

Budget Control Act - Title I: Changes in Rules of House and Senate - Establishes in the House of Representatives a Committee on the Budget consisting of 21 members: 7 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 7 members from the Committee on Ways and Means, and 7 members appointed by the Speaker of the House. Provides for the selection of the Chairman of the Committee and for the filling of vacancies on the Committee. Refers to the Committee matters relating to (a) the establishment of an overall limitation on budget outlays, and an overall limitation on new budget authority; (b) the determination of the overall level of Federal revenues, and the overall level of the public debt of the United States; (c) the determination of the appropriate level of surplus or deficit in the budget in the light of economic conditions and, (d) the allocation of the overall limitation on budget outlays, and the overall limitation on new budgetary authority. Requires the Committee to report during each regular session of Congress at least two concurrent resolutions concerning matters referred to the Committee and to make continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays of existing and proposed legislation and to report the results of these studies to the House of Representatives. Establishes in the United States Senate a Committee on the Budget consisting of 15 members: 5 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 5 members from the Committee on Finance, and 5 members appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate. Grants to the Senate Committee the same matters for consideration and the same duties as the House Committee. Declares that annually, on or before May 1, Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year beginning July 1. States that the concurrent resolution shall include with respect to budget outlays and with respect to new budget authority: (1) a general contingency reserve (for allocation only by a subsequent concurrent resolution on the budget) for possible new legislation (including enlargements of existing programs and activities); and (2) an emergency reserve (in amounts which do not exceed 2 percent of the amount of budget outlays otherwise allocated to the Committees on Appropriations and 2 percent of the amount of new budget authority otherwise allocated to such committees) which shall be available only for allocation by the Committees on Appropriations to specific programs and activities (or to subcommittees) to meet emergencies and other unforeseen contingencies. Provides for other matters which may be dealt with in the concurrent resolution. Sets forth a timetable for the first concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. Requires Congress to adopt a final concurrent resoltuion on the budget before adjourning and provides for consideration of concurrent resolution to be expedited. Declares that a tax surcharge is required where the budget deficit will be greater, or the surplus will be smaller, than that determined to be appropriate. States the requirements for amendments to concurrent resolutions. Provides that legislation dealing with the congressional budget must be handled by budget committees and that the concurrent resolution on budget must be adopted before appropriations and changes in revenues and public debt limit are made. Sets forth the requirements for legislation and amendments providing new budget authority, and declares that budget authority legislation may be required to contain outlay limitations. Places limitations on new permanent budget authority and on new spending authority. Requires the legislative committees to authorize the enactment of new budget authority before the beginning of the fiscal year. Authorizes the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Appropriations to consider and to report legislation rescinding budget authority. Provides for technical and conforming amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives and to the Standing Rules of the United States Senate, as well as amendments to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and 1970. Title II: Legislative Budget Director and Staff - Establishes a Joint Legislative Budget Staff headed by a Legislative Budget Director appointed by the record vote of a majority of the members of the Committee on the Budget of each House, and provides for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Legislative Budget Director to secure directly from any executive department or instrumentality of the government, information, data, estimates, and statistics relating to the function of the Joint Legislative Budget Staff. Directs the Joint Legislative Budget Staff to develop methods of using computers and other techniques for the analysis of information to improve not only the quantative but the qualitative evaluation of budgetary requirements.

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1973

Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

Omnibus Budget Reform and Impoundment Control Act

United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1973

Omnibus Budget Reform and Impoundment Control Act - Title I: Budget Reform Machinery and Procedures - Establishes Committees on the Budget within the Senate and House of Representatives to determine an overall limitation on budget outlays and authority of the United States Government. Provides that on or before May 1 of each year, the Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year beginning on July 1 of that year. Specifies the matters required to be set forth in such concurrent resolution. Requires, before March 1 of each year, specified Committees to submit their views and recommendations to the Committee on the Budget. Sets forth the timetable for the first concurrent resolution on the budget, including the effect of specified adjournments. Declares that Congress must adopt a final concurrent resolution on the budget before adjourning. Prescribes procedures for expediting consideration of such resolution. Provides for a tax surcharge where the budget deficit will be greater, or the surplus will be smaller, than that determined to be appropriate. Describes the requirements for amendments to concurrent resolutions made during the consideration in either House of such resolutions. Requires that any legislation dealing with the Congressional budget must be handled by the Committees on the Budget. States that the concurrent resolution on the budget must be adopted before appropriations, and changes in revenues and public debt, are made. Sets forth: (1) requirements for legislation providing new budget authority; (2) possible outlay limitations in budget authority legislation; (3) limitations on new permanent budget authority; (4) limitations on new spending authority; and (5) requirement of authorizations by legislative committees before the beginning of the fiscal years. Title II: Legislative Budget Director and Staff - Provides that the Committees on the Budget shall have a Joint Legislative Budget Staff, headed by a Legislative Budget Director. Establishes for these committees the Office of Program Evaluation under the direction and control of the Lesiglative Budget Director. States that it shall be the duty of the Office to: (1) conduct studies in the field of program evaluation to provide the respective Committees with information to increase the effectiveness of congressional activity; and (2) provide a basis for Congressional action based on analysis by the Congress, and not solely on information furnished from the executive branch. Sets forth the powers granted to the Legislative Budget Director. Extends additional powers to the Legislative Budget Director to secure directly from any executive office or instrumentality of the Government, information relating to the functions of the Joint Legislative Budget Staff or the Office of Program Evaluation. Directs the Joint Legislative Budget Staff and the Office of Program Evaluation to develop for the Committees on the Budget information with respect to existing and proposed legislation to form the basis for estimating budget outlays for the next three to five fiscal years. Title III: Additional Budget Information - Provides that, under the Budget and Accounting Act, any proposal for an increase or decrease in budget outlays must be accompanied by an analytical justification of the need for such increase or decrease, together with two alternatives to such proposal and an explanation of the projected application of each alternative in the light of national needs. Title IV: Impoundment Control Procedures - States that whenever the President, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, or head of any department or agency of the United States, impounds or authorizes the impounding of, any funds authorized for a specific purpose, the President shall, within ten days, transmit to the Congress a special message specifying: (1) the amount of funds impounded; (2) the date on which the funds were ordered to be impounded; (3) the date the funds were impounded; (4) any department to which such impounded funds would have been available and the specific projects involved; (5) the period of time during which the funds are to be impounded; (6) the reasons for the impoundment, including any legal authority invoked by him to justify the impoundment; and (7) to the maximum extent practicable, the estimated fiscal, economic, and budgetary effect of the impoundment. Provides that any impoundment of funds shall cease if within sixty calendar days of continuous session the specific impoundment shall have been disapproved by the Congress by passage of a concurrent resolution in accordance with the procedure set out in this Act. Sets forth specified rules, applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the case of resolutions described by this Act. Title V: Ceiling on Fiscal year 1974 Expenditures - Provides that, with specified exceptions, expenditures and net lending during fiscal year 1974, under the budget of the United States Government, shall not exceed $267,100,000.

An original bill to require that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and of certain other officers in the Executive Office of the President, be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1973

Requires that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Executive Director of the Domestic Council, and the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

Budget Control Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1973

Budget Control Act - Title I: Changes in Rules of House and Senate - Establishes in the House of Representatives a Committee on the Budget consisting of 21 members: 5 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 5 members from the Committee on Ways and Means, and 11 members who are members of other Committees. Provides for the selection of the chairman of the Committee. Refers to the Committee matters relating to: (1) the establishment of an overall limitation on budget outlays, and an overall limitation on new budget authority; (2) the determination of the overall level of Federal revenues, and the overall level of the public debt of the United States; (3) the determination of the appropriate level of surplus or deficit in the budget in the light of economic conditions and; (4) the allocation of the overall limitation on budget outlays, and the overall limitation on new budgetary authority. Requires the Committee to report during each regular session of Congress at least two concurrent resolutions concerning matters referred to the Committee and to make continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays of existing and proposed legislation and to report the results of these studies to the House of Representatives. Establishes in the United States Senate a Committee on the Budget consisting of 17 members: 4 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 4 members from the Committee on Finance, and 9 members who are members of other Committees. Grants to the Senate Committee the same matters for consideration and the same duties as the House Committee. Declares that annually, on or before July 1, Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year beginning January 1 of the next year. States that the concurrent resolution shall include with respect to budget outlays and with respect to new budget authority: (1) a general contingency reserve (for allocation only by a subsequent concurrent resolution on the budget) for possible new legislation (including enlargements of existing programs and activities); and (2) an emergency reserve (in amounts which do not exceed 2 percent of the amount of budget outlays otherwise allocated to the Committees on Appropriations and 2 percent of the amount of new budget authority otherwise allocated to such committees) which shall be available only for allocation by the Committees on Appropriations to specific programs and activities (or to subcommittees) to meet emergencies and other unforeseen contingencies. Provides for other matters which may be dealt with in the concurrent resolution. Sets forth a timetable for the first concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. Requires Congress to adopt a final concurrent resolution on the budget before adjourning and provides for consideration of concurrent resolution to be expedited. Declares that a tax surcharge is required where the budget deficit will be greater, or the surplus will be smaller, than that determined to be appropriate. States the requirements for amendments to concurrent resolutions. Provides that legislation dealing with the congressional budget must be handled by budget committees and that the concurrent resolution on budget must be adopted before appropriations and changes in revenues and public debt limit are made. Sets forth the requirements for legislation and amendments providing new budget authority, and declares that budget authority legislation may be required to contain outlay limitations. Places limitations on new permanent budget authority and on new spending authority. Requires the legislative committees to authorize the enactment of new budget authority before the beginning of the fiscal year. Authorizes the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Appropriations to consider and to report legislation rescinding budget authority. Provides for technical and conforming amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives and to the Standing Rules of the United States Senate, as well as amendments to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and 1970. Title II: Legislative Budget Director and Staff - Establishes a Joint Legislative Budget Staff headed by a Legislative Budget Director appointed by the record vote of a majority of the members of the Committee on the Budget of each House, and provides for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Legislative Budget Director to secure directly from any executive department or instrumentality of the government, information, data, estimates, and statistics relating to the function of the Joint Legislative Budget Staff. Directs the Joint Legislative Budget Staff to develop methods of using computers and other techniques for the analysis of information to improve not only the quantative but the qualitative evaluation of budgetary requirements.

Budget Control Act

United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1973

Budget Control Act - Title I: Changes in Rules of House and Senate - Establishes in the House of Representatives a Committee on the Budget consisting of 21 members: 7 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 7 members from the Committee on Ways and Means, and 7 members appointed by the Speaker of the House. Provides for the selection of the Chairman of the Committee and for the filling of vacancies on the Committee. Refers to the Committee matters relating to (a) the establishment of an overall limitation on budget outlays, and an overall limitation on new budget authority; (b) the determination of the overall level of Federal revenues, and the overall level of the public debt of the United States; (c) the determination of the appropriate level of surplus or deficit in the budget in the light of economic conditions and, (d) the allocation of the overall limitation on budget outlays, and the overall limitation on new budgetary authority. Requires the Committee to report during each regular session of Congress at least two concurrent resolutions concerning matters referred to the Committee and to make continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays of existing and proposed legislation and to report the results of these studies to the House of Representatives. Establishes in the United States Senate a Committee on the Budget consisting of 15 members: 5 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 5 members from the Committee on Finance, and 5 members appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate. Grants to the Senate Committee the same matters for consideration and the same duties as the House Committee. Declares that annually, on or before May 1, Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year beginning July 1. States that the concurrent resolution shall include with respect to budget outlays and with respect to new budget authority: (1) a general contingency reserve (for allocation only by a subsequent concurrent resolution on the budget) for possible new legislation (including enlargements of existing programs and activities); and (2) an emergency reserve (in amounts which do not exceed 2 percent of the amount of budget outlays otherwise allocated to the Committees on Appropriations and 2 percent of the amount of new budget authority otherwise allocated to such committees) which shall be available only for allocation by the Committees on Appropriations to specific programs and activities (or to subcommittees) to meet emergencies and other unforeseen contingencies. Provides for other matters which may be dealt with in the concurrent resolution. Sets forth a timetable for the first concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. Requires Congress to adopt a final concurrent resoltuion on the budget before adjourning and provides for consideration of concurrent resolution to be expedited. Declares that a tax surcharge is required where the budget deficit will be greater, or the surplus will be smaller, than that determined to be appropriate. States the requirements for amendments to concurrent resolutions. Provides that legislation dealing with the congressional budget must be handled by budget committees and that the concurrent resolution on budget must be adopted before appropriations and changes in revenues and public debt limit are made. Sets forth the requirements for legislation and amendments providing new budget authority, and declares that budget authority legislation may be required to contain outlay limitations. Places limitations on new permanent budget authority and on new spending authority. Requires the legislative committees to authorize the enactment of new budget authority before the beginning of the fiscal year. Authorizes the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Appropriations to consider and to report legislation rescinding budget authority. Provides for technical and conforming amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives and to the Standing Rules of the United States Senate, as well as amendments to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and 1970. Title II: Legislative Budget Director and Staff - Establishes a Joint Legislative Budget Staff headed by a Legislative Budget Director appointed by the record vote of a majority of the members of the Committee on the Budget of each House, and provides for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Legislative Budget Director to secure directly from any executive department or instrumentality of the government, information, data, estimates, and statistics relating to the function of the Joint Legislative Budget Staff. Directs the Joint Legislative Budget Staff to develop methods of using computers and other techniques for the analysis of information to improve not only the quantative but the qualitative evaluation of budgetary requirements.

A bill to provide for legislative budget review by the General Accounting Office.

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973

Establishes within the General Accounting Office a Division of Legislative Budget Review. States that within the Division there shall be a separate office for each executive agency which shall: (1) continuously observe and study the operation of the agency to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of the agency in the utilization of appropriated funds; (2) review and analyze the budget estimates submitted by that agency for inclusion in the budget and in supplemental and deficiency requests; (3) review and analyze budget requests for that agency included in the budget and in supplemental and deficiency budget requests submitted to Congress; and (4) make its own present and future budget estimates with respect to that agency; (5) develop, establish, and maintain an up-to-date inventory of executive branch fiscal, budgetary, and program related information; and (6) review these agency operations on a continuing basis and determine whether the agency is satisfying congressional intent and requirements. Directs the Comptroller General to transmit to Congress, as soon as practicable, each review, analysis, and estimate of each such office. States that an officer or employee in an office for an executive agency shall not serve in that office for more than thirty six consecutive months and that upon termination of service in that office such officer or employee shall not be appointed, detailed, assigned, or otherwise made available to perform duties with respect to that same agency unless at least six years have elapsed since the date of such termination of service. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, but not more than 10 percent of the funds utilized by the various agencies of the executive branch in the formulation, presentation, and justification of agency estimates within the various agencies and departments; presentation and justification to the Office of Management and Budget; and presentation and justification to Congress.

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973

Provides that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

A bill to require that future appointments to the office of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and of certain other officers in the Executive Office of the President, be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973

Requires that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Director of the Domestic Council, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council, and Executive Director of the Council on International Economic Policy, shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the balancing of the budget.

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973

Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President to transmit to the Congress on or before the fifteenth day after the beginning of each session a budget which shall set forth the estimated Government receipts during the ensuing fiscal year and recommendations with respect to expenditures which shall not exceed such estimates of receipts. States that Congress shall not authorize expenditures to be made in excess of the estimated receipts except in case of war or national emergency.

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1973

Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

Concurrent resolution authorizing and directing the Joint Study Committee on Budget Control to report legislation to the Congress no later than June 1, 1973, providing procedures for improving congressional control of budgetary outlay and receipt totals, the operation of a limitation on expenditures and net lending commencing with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1973 and for limiting the authority of the President to impound or otherwise withhold funds authorized and appropriated by the Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1973

Directs the Joint Study Committee on Budget Control to report to the Congress, by bill or resolution, no later than June 1, 1973, its final recommendations with respect to any matters covered under its jurisdiction. Provides that such report shall include, but shall not be limited to : (1) procedures for improving congressional control of budgetary outlay and receipt totals, including procedures for establishing and maintaining an overall view of each year's budgetary outlays which is fully coordinated with an overall view of the anticipated revenues for that year; (2) procedures for the operation of a limitation on expenditures and net lending commencing with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1973; and (3) procedures for limiting the authority of the President to impound or otherwise withhold funds authorized and appropriated by the Congress.

A bill to amend the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to require the advice and consent of the Senate for future appointments to the officers of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1973

Requires the advice and consent of the Senate for future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget under the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. (Amends 31 U.S.C. 16)

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1973

Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1973

Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Directors of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1973

Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

A bill to provide that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1973

Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate. Prescribes the term of office for such individuals.

Office of Management and Budget Act

United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1973

Office of Management and Budget Act - Title I: Office of Management and Budget - Establishes, as an agency within the legislative branch of the Government, an Office of Mangement and Budget. Provides that the Office shall be headed by a Director of Management and Budget who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and who shall serve for a term of ten years. Transfers to the Office all powers, duties, and functions, and all property, records, and files of the Office of Mangement and Budget originally established by the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, and redesignated by Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1970. Transfers to the Director all powers, duties, and functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and all powers, duties, and functions of the President insofar as such powers, duties, and functions are vested by or derived from the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act of 1950, or any law related or supplementary to such Acts. Title II: Joint Committee on the Budget - Establishes a joint committee of the Congress which shall be known as the Joint Committee on the Budget. States that the joint committee shall be composed of twelve members. Sets forth the method and criteria for selecting the twelve members. States that it shall be the duty and function of the joint committee to oversee and supervise the operations and activities of the Office of Management and Budget, including the preparation and submission to the Congress of the Budget of the United States Government for each fiscal year. Sets forth the administrative functions and responsibilities of the committee.

A bill to amend the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 to require the advice and consent of the Senate for appointments to Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1973

Requires the advice and consent of the Senate for appointments to Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Budget Control Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1973

Budget Control Act - Title I: Changes in Rules of House and Senate - Establishes in the House of Representatives a Committee on the Budget consisting of 21 members: 7 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 7 members from the Committee on Ways and Means, and 7 members appointed by the Speaker of the House. Provides for the selection of the Chairman of the Committee and for the filling of vacancies on the Committee. Refers to the Committee matters relating to (a) the establishment of an overall limitation on budget outlays, and an overall limitation on new budget authority; (b) the determination of the overall level of Federal revenues, and the overall level of the public debt of the United States; (c) the determination of the appropriate level of surplus or deficit in the budget in the light of economic conditions and, (d) the allocation of the overall limitation on budget outlays, and the overall limitation on new budgetary authority. Requires the Committee to report during each regular session of Congress at least two concurrent resolutions concerning matters referred to the Committee and to make continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays of existing and proposed legislation and to report the results of these studies to the House of Representatives. Establishes in the United States Senate a Committee on the Budget consisting of 15 members: 5 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 5 members from the Committee on Finance, and 5 members appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate. Grants to the Senate Committee the same matters for consideration and the same duties as the House Committee. Declares that annually, on or before May 1, Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year beginning July 1. States that the concurrent resolution shall include with respect to budget outlays and with respect to new budget authority: (1) a general contingency reserve (for allocation only by a subsequent concurrent resolution on the budget) for possible new legislation (including enlargements of existing programs and activities); and (2) an emergency reserve (in amounts which do not exceed 2 percent of the amount of budget outlays otherwise allocated to the Committees on Appropriations and 2 percent of the amount of new budget authority otherwise allocated to such committees) which shall be available only for allocation by the Committees on Appropriations to specific programs and activities (or to subcommittees) to meet emergencies and other unforeseen contingencies. Provides for other matters which may be dealt with in the concurrent resolution. Sets forth a timetable for the first concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. Requires Congress to adopt a final concurrent resoltuion on the budget before adjourning and provides for consideration of concurrent resolution to be expedited. Declares that a tax surcharge is required where the budget deficit will be greater, or the surplus will be smaller, than that determined to be appropriate. States the requirements for amendments to concurrent resolutions. Provides that legislation dealing with the congressional budget must be handled by budget committees and that the concurrent resolution on budget must be adopted before appropriations and changes in revenues and public debt limit are made. Sets forth the requirements for legislation and amendments providing new budget authority, and declares that budget authority legislation may be required to contain outlay limitations. Places limitations on new permanent budget authority and on new spending authority. Requires the legislative committees to authorize the enactment of new budget authority before the beginning of the fiscal year. Authorizes the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Appropriations to consider and to report legislation rescinding budget authority. Provides for technical and conforming amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives and to the Standing Rules of the United States Senate, as well as amendments to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and 1970. Title II: Legislative Budget Director and Staff - Establishes a Joint Legislative Budget Staff headed by a Legislative Budget Director appointed by the record vote of a majority of the members of the Committee on the Budget of each House, and provides for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Legislative Budget Director to secure directly from any executive department or instrumentality of the government, information, data, estimates, and statistics relating to the function of the Joint Legislative Budget Staff. Directs the Joint Legislative Budget Staff to develop methods of using computers and other techniques for the analysis of information to improve not only the quantative but the qualitative evaluation of budgetary requirements.