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The Budget Resolution Should Be a Law
Author(s) -
Meyers Roy T.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
public budgeting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1540-5850
pISSN - 0275-1100
DOI - 10.1111/1540-5850.00878
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , information retrieval , library science , operations research , law and economics , political science , sociology , mathematics
The budget resolution is a "concurrent resolution," which is a resolution passed by both houses of Congress. A concurrent resolution is not a law, because it does not meet the constitutional requirement that laws must be presented to the president for approval. A concurrent resolution is instead a vehicle used by the House and the Senate to make or amend rules or to express positions. "Bi l l s" and "joint resolutions" are used to enact laws. Though there are distinctions between bills and joint resolutions, they are not relevant here; proposals to convert the budget resolution into a law have suggested that the joint resolution label be used. During the extensive consideration of the Congressional Budget Act, there was next to no discussion of the possibility of having the president approve or veto the proposed budget of the Congress.