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Informing Legislators about the Budget: The History and Role of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office 1 (June 2002)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo8305 and id is 1 raw text is: Informing Legislators About the Budget: The History and Role of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office Dan L. Crippen Director Congressional Budget Office June 7, 2002 Introduction Budgeting presents a special challenge for legislative bodies worldwide. Almost invariably, legislators find that the major decisions they confront and the votes they cast have important fiscal consequences. And to make inform-ed decisions about those consequences, they must themselves be informed. Yet their need for reliable information poses a problem. Executive officials and program administrators generally control the information that is vital to budget decision-making. And it may or may not be in their best interests to keep legislators fully informed about the budget. In the United States, this problem is aggravated by the particular structure of our national government. Most nations combine the executive and legislative functions into a parliamentary form of government. By contrast, the U.S. Constitution divides our national government into three independent branches: the legislative (the Congress), executive (the President), and judicial (the Courts). Powers are reserved to each branch but are also shared among the three.

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