A method of budgeting that focuses on requested increases in funding for existing programs, accepting as legitimate their previous year's expenditures, is __________

Congress was officially given the power to levy an income tax through the

A) Sixteenth Amendment. B) Supreme Court case of Pollock v. Farmer?s Loan and Trust Co. (1895). C) revenue clause of the original Constitution. D) Internal Revenue Act. E) Balanced Budget Amendment.

At which of the following stages will private citizens have the greatest influence on the passage of legislation?

a. introduction b. hearings c. mark up d. floor debate e. nullification