The Budget Impoundment and Control Act
a. created a unified spending process by combining the taxing and spending committees in each chamber.
b. allowed Congress to override presidential vetoes of budgets with a simple majority vote.
c. required Congress to consider the President’s budget that presented a unified statement of government revenue and agency spending requests to promote greater fiscal responsibility.
d. was designed to force members to vote on explicit levels of taxes, expenditures, and deficits so members would have to take direct responsibility for fiscal consequences of many separate decisions.
d. was designed to force members to vote on explicit levels of taxes, expenditures, and deficits so members would have to take direct responsibility for fiscal consequences of many separate decisions.
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Vice President John C. Calhoun argued that states had the right to nullify laws as well as secede from the union if they desired. To secede means that the state(s)
A) ?disobey an act of Congress. B) ?fail to enforce the full faith and credit clause. C) ?fail to enforce the fugitive slave clause. D) ?formally leave the union. E) ignore the laws of the union.
Compare and contrast Van Belle’s definition of politics, as goal-directed actions with public consequences to Harold Lasswell’s definition of politics as the process of who gets what, when, and how.
What will be an ideal response?