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Budget Process Law Annotated (1993)

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DECLARATION OF PURPOSES

Sec. 2²⁵ The Congress declares that it is essential—

(1) to assure effective congressional control over the budgetary process;

(2) to provide for congressional determination each year of the appropriate level of Federal revenues and expenditures;

(3) to provide a system of impoundment control;

(4) to establish national budget priorities; and

(5) to provide for the furnishing of information by the executive branch in a manner that will assist the Congress in discharging its duties.

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25. Section 2 is codified at  2 U.S.C. § 621 (1988).

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