The Budget of the U. S. is a green-bound volume about the size of a telephone book for a city of two million and contains about as many figures. Prepared under the President's personal supervision, it details to Congress, which is under a moral but not legal obligation to follow it, the estimated sums of money required to operate the Government. U. S. officials appear before the House Appropriations Committeein secret sessionto explain and justify their cash allotments. Any such official who dares ask Congress for more money than the Budget allows...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
