Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Balance the Budget and Limit Federal Spending: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First and Second Sessions on Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Balance the Budget and Limit Federal Spending, March 18 and 19, 1981, May 5, 19, August 3, 4, and 5, 1982 |
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Page 369 - Court based standing to challenge administrative action on two conditions: (1) "whether the plaintiff alleges that the challenged action has caused him injury in fact, economic or otherwise...
Page 359 - It is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of our finding certain opinions natural and familiar or novel and even shocking ought not to conclude our judgment upon the question whether statutes embodying them conflict with the Constitution of the United States.
Page 636 - Clarence Mitchell, director of the Washington Bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Page 363 - Fund loan program measure was enacted into law and requires that, beginning with fiscal year 1981, total budget outlays of the federal government "shall not" exceed its receipts (PL 95-435).
Page 2 - The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution, which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 42 - ... should be provided. The mode preferred by the Convention seems to be stamped with every mark of propriety. It guards equally against that extreme facility which would render the Constitution too mutable, and that extreme difficulty which might perpetuate its discovered faults. It, moreover, equally enables the general and the State governments to originate the amendment of errors as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side or on the other.
Page 80 - SECTION 1 . Prior to each fiscal year, the Congress shall adopt a statement of receipts and outlays for that year in which total outlays are no greater than total receipts. The Congress may amend such statement provided revised outlays are no greater than revised receipts. Whenever three-fifths of the whole number of both Houses shall deem it necessary, Congress in such statement may provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a vote directed solely to that subject.
Page 664 - Why, so can I ; or so can any man : But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
Page 614 - ... of both Houses of Congress shall have passed a bill directed solely to approving specific additional receipts and such bill has become law.
Page 596 - Franco Modigliani Massachusetts Institute of Techology Former President, American Economic Association James N. Morgan University of Michigan Alicia H. Munnell Vice President and Economist Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Peggy B. Musgrave University of California at Santa Crus Richard A.