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Presidential Spending Power (Hardcover)
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Presidential Spending Power (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Each year billions of dollars are diverted by the President and his
assistants from the purposes for which Congress intended them.
Billions more are used in confidential and covert ways, without the
knowledge of Congress and the public. Here is the first account of
how this money is actually spent. Louis Fisher writes: "When it
comes to the administration of the budget, we find nothing that is
obvious, very little that is visible. Our priorities here are
peculiar. We fix upon the appropriations process, watching with
great fascination as Congress goes about its business of making
funds available to agencies. What happens after that point --the
actual spending of money--rarely commands our attention." To
unravel the mystery, Louis Fisher has investigated different forms
of discretionary action: the transfer of funds that initially
financed the Cambodian incursion; impoundment during the Nixon
administration; covert financing; the reprogramming of funds; and
unauthorized commitments. He describes each of these devices in
operation and provides the historical background of Presidential
spending power. In conclusion Louis Fisher presents a cogent and
timely analysis of what can be done to improve Congressional
control. Sufficient control, he maintains, cannot be achieved
merely through the appropriations process, and he makes important
recommendations designed to preserve discretionary authority while
improving Congressional supervision. Originally published in 1975.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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