Document Type
Lecture
Publication Date
10-4-2016
Abstract
Observers of Congress often cite the budget process as evidence of the institution’s contemporary dysfunction. Indeed, in the past ten years, the House and Senate have failed to agree on a budget resolution six times and Congress has failed to pass nearly all of its appropriations bills before the October 1 deadline. This inability to fulfill one of its basic responsibilities is often blamed on increasingly polarized congressional parties attempting to leverage the process to their advantages. Is this claim accurate? How have partisan dynamics in the budget process changed over time? How can we make the process work better in light of current levels of partisanship and polarization? Will the 2016 elections have consequences for the budget process? In this lecture, I will address these and other related questions, relying in part of new data on the use (and possible abuse) of various procedural aspects of the budget process, especially in the U.S. Senate.
Keywords
Budget process; Political parties; United States. Congress
Disciplines
Public Affairs | Public Policy
File Format
File Size
1.465 KB
Language
English
Repository Citation
Reynolds, M.
(2016).
The Partisan Politics of the Congressional Budget Process.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/brookings_lectures_events/109
PowerPoint presentation
Comments
Event sponsored by Brookings Mountain West
Molly Reynolds, Ph.D., is a Brookings Institution governance studies fellow.
Greenspun Auditorium University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Downloadable video is 70.1 MB, MP4 format
Attached file: 32 PowerPoint slides