The respective heads of the House and Senate Budget Committees, John Spratt, Jr.
The House and Senate budget committees set spending targets and instructed appropriations committees to work within those limits.
Others want to give the budget committees in national parliaments a clear role in monitoring and applying the fiscal compact.
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The House and Senate Budget Committees set the overall parameters for tax and spending in the rare years when they pass a budget resolution.
The House and Senate budget committees could assist us by requesting that the CBO score all proposed legislation according to its alternative scenario as well as according to current law.
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The bipartisan measure comes as Washington girds for weeks of warfare over the budget for next year and beyond as both House and Senate Budget Committees this week take up blueprints for the upcoming 2014 budget year.
Apparently heartened by what he calls a new Republican flexibility on taxes and economic assumptions, the president met with the GOP chairmen and the ranking Democrats of the House and Senate budget-writing committees.
Obama had also proposed reducing agricultural subsidies to farmers with sales of more than half a million dollars a year, a notion that farm-state senators like Conrad, who have disproportionate influence on the Budget and Finance Committees, rejected.
Mr. Wicker is a low-key, second-term senator who is a member of the budget and armed services committees.
Since the draft budget was announced on 5 October 2009, the finance committee and various other subject committees have been scrutinising the budget in detail.
The House and Senate measures do not require Clinton's signature, but instead lay the groundwork for Congress' budget process, which involves multiple committees.
Budget reconciliation -- the process that implemented last year's budget -- requires the authorizing committees, which make policy, to produce savings from mandatory programs that can then be used to cut taxes.
Reconciliation was an effort to allow Congress to fine-tune taxing and spending decisions made by the committees so that the final budget matched the initial guidelines proposed by Congress.
In March Mr Neumann was one of 11 Republicans who blocked a 14% increase in the budget that pays for the various House committees: if Congress expected the rest of the country to accept belt-tightening, it should tighten its own belt, he said.
Leaders on both sides acknowledged the deep differences between them on a day when congressional committees began considering separate spending proposals for 2014 to launch the formal budget process.
The Environmental Defense Fund sent a letter recently to all members of the U.S. Senate appropriations committees asking them to strike anti-environmental climate change riders from the budget appropriations bills.
He passed two Senate committees with more than 40 votes and only one dissenting vote, and obviously a budget director in a time of economic concern and concern about our long-term fiscal picture is somebody that you need at work.
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