The Budget Impoundment and Control Act
a. created a unified spending process by combining the taxing and spending committees in each chamber.
b. allowed Congress to override presidential vetoes of budgets with a simple majority vote.
c. required Congress to consider the President’s budget that presented a unified statement of government revenue and agency spending requests to promote greater fiscal responsibility.
d. was designed to force members to vote on explicit levels of taxes, expenditures, and deficits so members would have to take direct responsibility for fiscal consequences of many separate decisions.
d. was designed to force members to vote on explicit levels of taxes, expenditures, and deficits so members would have to take direct responsibility for fiscal consequences of many separate decisions.
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