budget law

This reality can be the basis for a new budget law.

Congress is already required to make huge spending cuts under the budget law.

Under the 1990 budget law, cuts in military spending can be used only to reduce the Federal deficit.

Without that revenue, Government programs would have to be cut, because the budget law limits the 1990 deficit to $100 billion.

Under the 1993 budget law, Federal spending is expected to rise over the next four years by about $250 billion.

So instead, it will amend the budget law to make next year's cut easier.

The important point is for Congress to fix the budget law permanently.

That's because the budget law passed last fall guts Congress's right to make important decisions for the next two years.

Yet even within the new budget law, the House could have done more.

Under the budget laws, the practice of scoring takes on a huge importance.