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1 [i] (1986)

handle is hein.amenin/aeiabbv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A useful and informative study. It could not be more timely .... It is refreshing to find a discussion that reaffirms the value of existing budget procedures, REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM 1H. GRAY, 1M1, chairman, House Budget Committee I believe the fiscal situation has deteriorated radically since 1974 in spite of the Budget Act, not because of it. DAV7D STOCKMAN, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, 1981-85 The most important function of the budget process is to constrain---though not always successfully-politicians from simultaneously supporting new programs and opposing higher taxes or higher deficits. RuDoLPH G. PENNER, director of the Congressional Budget Office Members of Congress use the budget process to give the appearance that they are doing something about the deficits or dealing with the budget. In my judgment- theyt are using it as a political cover so that theyj can continue to be fiscally irresponsible. TRENT LoT, U.S. Representative (R-Miss.) We need to set up machinery to make honest economic assumptions.... We can fight over priorities, but at least we should agree on the numbers underlying the budget. LEON PANETFTA, U.S. Representative (D-Calif.) The queue waiting to get other matters onto the floor for consideration is so lengthy that there is a powerful temptation to load matters that do not belong in the budget onto the process NORMAN ORNSTEIN, resident schola; AEI The evolution of the budget process over the past decade is a testament to the adaptive capacity of Congress. The act has hardly been touched, but by means of piecemeal adjustments the process is significantly different fron when it was launcthed. ALLEN SCHICK, professor of public policy, University of Maryland, visiting scholar, AEI How well has congressional budgeting worked? in Part One of Crisis in the Budget Process: Exercising Political Choice, Allen Schick gives an appraisal of its effectiveness, identifies budgeting trends, and examines proposals to improve the process. In Part Two David Stockman, Rudolph G. Penner, Congressmen Trent Lott and Leon Panetta, and Norman Ornstein offer their insights into the budget process-its problems and its promise. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W, Washington, D.C. 20036 ISBN 978-0-8447-3596-2 9 780844_ . r American Enterprise Institute inthe Bud.,-,..es Exercising Political Choice s.. . # X N,., > \. with papers by m k x.-, ' s N ,-'--, N N : --

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