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Experts said the elimination of Gramm-Rudman's automatic budget cuts will complicate and extend Congressional debate over the budget this year by forcing Congress to make political decisions about their spending priorities. Harvard officials, who lobbied against Gramm-Rudman since a bill was introduced in Congress this fall, celebrated the ruling as beneficial for higher education...
...Supreme Court yesterday declared unconstitutional the controversial Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction act requiring a balanced budget...
Some experts said that the absence of the Gramm-Rudman act will improve the quality of Congress' budget-making process. Without the protection of Gramm-Rudman's automatic provision, "there's no place to hide from hard budget decisions," said John Shattuck, Harvard vice president for government and community affairs...
Some of his recent decisions at the Court of Appeals highlight his distaste for what he calls the "imperial judiciary" and his abiding belief in Executive over Legislative power. Scalia was the probable author of the unsigned opinion striking down a key provision of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget-balancing law on the ground that the Comptroller General, responsible for implementing its trigger mechanism, is not under the executive branch of Government. An unwavering apostle of judicial restraint, he may give pause to conservatives seeking a more activist judicial agenda. As he wrote last year: conservatives "must decide whether they...
...rate at 27%. Some supporters hope to reach an agreement that will prevent any Senator from offering loophole-opening amendments without specifying how to make up for any revenues that might be lost. If a budget has been passed by then, such trade- offs would be mandatory under the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction...