budget law

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This also required a waiver of the budget law, which was approved 74 to 21.

It gives the President unilateral power to change budget laws after he has signed them.

The immediate problem for the coming year centers on the spending caps set out in the budget law.

Administration officials said the proposed fee was not really a new tax because its collection has already been authorized under a 1986 budget law.

The 1990 budget law requires Congress, come 1994, to cut spending drastically or else raise taxes.

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

An additional 59 voted against waiving the budget law, including 15 Republicans.

The budget law of 1993 tightened the rules on qualifying for Medicaid.

Under the budget laws enacted in 1990 and 1993, priorities must be addressed when new programs are considered.

Congress enacted the pay-as-you-go rule in 1990 as part of a budget law.

And since welfare is an "entitlement program," the budget law requires the cuts to come from similar programs.

Since its passage more than a year ago, the balanced budget law has proved to be a sham.

The military budget was cut, but by less than the balanced budget law specified.

The 1990 budget law requires any new spending to be paid for with offsetting taxes or cuts.

The balanced budget law sought to shrink that added payment, in a series of steps over several years.

But he also knows that the budget law and budget politics now call for specific numbers, not ranges.

And his party would also like to import ideas from the state capitols to Washington, such as balanced budget laws.