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Budget Committee

A committee in a legislature that provides oversight in the preparation of the government budget. Depending on the particular committee, it may directly write the budget, receive expenditure estimates from government agencies and/or draft legislation implementing the budget.

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The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, enacted December 26, 2013, resulted from negotiations between the Chairs of the House and Senate Budget Committees in association with the conference committee on the FY2014 budget resolution.

Provisions in the bipartisan budget act of 2013 as an alternative to a traditional budget resolution

VOA's Michael Bowman reports, the conference brings together top lawmakers from the House and Senate budget committees that, for years, have been deadlocked on federal spending and taxation.

Washington Week: Lawmakers Return to Budget Battle

"I'm heartened when anyone wants to participate in things like school district budget committees," she said.

Eugene School Board to appoint budgeters

The Majlis majority has organized the new Majlis and dumped all minority members from the National Security and Budget Committees, two of the most important committees in the chamber.

Reformists barred from key committees

The Stop Over-Spending (SOS) Act sponsored by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) would set deficit targets and require budget committees to reduce entitlement spending if there was too much red ink.

Gathering clouds

The House and Senate Budget committees use the President's budget proposal as a starting point for negotiations on a Congressional Budget Resolution that will be used to guide the appropriations process later in the year.

CDBG cuts spark flurry of letters on Capitol Hill

The board in November approved the program, which was proposed by the Communications Committee and endorsed by both the Program Evaluation and Budget committees. Budget Committee Chair William Kalish also said that panel is reexamining the Bar's 2001-02 budget because of revenue declines.

Board offers local bars cash to encourage public outreach

The budget committees of both houses of the Diet will each be convened for two days -- the House of Representatives Budget Committee on Nov.

Extra budget to take effect around Nov. 15

Because of the state's extraordinary public records law and open meetings laws, legislators have to make public any budget requests they file with the budget committees, and much of the budget deliberation takes place in public.

Republicans at the trough: in the states, as in Washington, Republicans are just as fond of pork as Democrats

Kaseberg said members also tried to follow state guidelines pertaining to public budget committees, which warn against including such quorums in group e-mail messages, but said she inadvertently did so on one occasion.

Commissioner downplays e-mail on budget jockeying

If the budget resolution instructs more than one committee in a chamber, then the instructed committees submit their legislative recommendations to their respective Budget Committees by the deadline prescribed in the budget resolution; the Budget Committees incorporate them into an omnibus budget reconciliation bill without making any substantive revisions.