Congress Budget Committees

I can’t write two separate papers on my committees because they have the exact same job. Instead I will write about both of them put together.

Each branch of Congress have their own budget committees who hold meetings at different times throughout the year. The House and Senate Committee on the Budget was established in 1974 by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. Along with the Senate Budget Committee, it is responsible for drafting Congress's annual budget plan and monitoring action on the budget for the federal government. Through this plan, called a "budget resolution," Congress sets targets for itself on the desired size of the federal budget and its composition. It is up to Congress to enforce these budget targets by enacting funding and tax legislation that stays within the congressional budget resolution. A budget resolution includes the total planned cost of federal programs, of revenues, and of the surplus or deficit. In addition, the budget res...