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Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
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Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
Legislation in the United States, passed in 1985, that mandated automatic cuts in federal discretionary spending if the government deficit rose above stated target levels. The severity of the cuts was considered draconian and the Act was found largely unconstitutional in 1987. It was replaced by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990.
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In Part II, we apply our analysis to a wide range of entrenchment-related problems, including the validity of the Senate cloture rules, the Gramm-Rudman law, legislatively enacted canons of statutory interpretation, statutes that regulate internal congressional procedures, government contracts, treaties, and entrenchment within the executive and judicial branches.
Legislative entrenchment: a reappraisal by Posner, Eric A.; Vermeule, Adrian / Yale Law Journal
After briefly summarizing his family background, formative years, and pre-Washington career, Rudman paints four pictures of the contemporary Senate at work: the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction law; the investigation of the Iran-Contra affair; the nomination of David Souter, his close friend, to the Supreme Court; and the ethics problems raised by the so-called Keating Five.
Combat: Twelve Years in the U.S. Senate by Loomis, Burdett A. / Presidential Studies Quarterly
If Congress decides it wants to, it may merely ignore the amendment without penalty, as it does now with other laws, such as Gramm-Rudman and the Bill of Rights.
PUBLIC FORUM : MANY READERS SKEPTICAL OF BALANCED BUDGET EDICT by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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