To the Rescue of Congress

With bureaucrats, excess of appetite grows by what it feeds on: money and power. The problem is, how to restore legislative control over Agency Budgets

The President of the United States has asked Congress to give his multitudinous Administrative Agencies the money with which to operate during the fiscal year starting July 1. His request is embodied in a document of some 1,300 printed pages, listing thousands of individual items for which money is to be spent, and called the Administrative Budget. All of the $73.9 billion asked for must come out of your hide and mine. It is high time, therefore, that we understand that much of this spending is sheer waste, why Congress is presently unable to control it, and how it can be curtailed.

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With bureaucrats, excess of appetite grows by what it feeds on: money and power. The problem is, how to restore legislative control over Agency Budgets

The President of the United States has asked Congress to give his multitudinous Administrative Agencies the money with which to operate during the fiscal year starting July 1. His request is embodied in a document of some 1,300 printed pages, listing thousands of individual items for which money is to be spent, and called the Administrative Budget. All of the $73.9 billion asked for must come out of your hide and mine. It is high time, therefore, that we understand that much of this spending is sheer waste, why Congress is presently unable to control it, and how it can be curtailed.