Impoundment refers to
a. the president's overturning of the previous administration's policies.
b. Congress's refusal to appropriate money.
c. the president's refusal to spend appropriated funds.
d. Congress's insistence on specific spending requirements.
e. the Senate's refusal to approve funds already appropriated.
c
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