Word: impounded
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...operations of the Executive branch. The committee should work closely with the Senate's Ervin subcommittee, and should concentrate chiefly on the House's responsibility arising from the Watergate scandal. It should also treat the broader question of whether the Executive's attempts to continue the Cambodian bombing and impound appropriated funds are constitutional...
...Highly recommended by almost every Administration official with whom he came into contact, Dean caught the eye of image-oriented people at the White House, and in 1970 moved over there to succeed John Ehrlichman as counsel. He has outlined the legal basis for Nixon's decisions to impound funds voted by Congress and to expand the doctrine of executive privilege...
Recent Presidents have not hesitated to impound when it suited their purpose. In 1942 Franklin Roosevelt ordered the Secretary of War to establish monetary reserves by the "deferment of construction funds not essential to the war effort." A year later the Senate was disturbed enough by F.D.R.'s impoundment policies to impose some restrictions on them. But the House would not go along, arguing that in time of war. the Chief Executive's power over the budget should not be restrained. In 1949 Harry Truman withheld funds to build a 58-wing Air Force when he thought...
Nixon has gone further than his predecessors. He has claimed the constitutional right to impound, both to manage the economy and to reject programs or portions of programs that he feels are illadvised. While past Presidents have shifted funds slated for one weapons system to another, they have been reluctant to do the same with domestic programs. Nixon has thus further stretched presidential power...
...congressional furor building against Nixon's policies is especially ominous. In his budget message, the President did not specifically threaten to impound funds that Congress might appropriate for the programs that he wants to eliminate. He did not have to; no Representative or Senator could be unaware that the President already has decided to impound roughly $4 billion that Congress wanted spent this fiscal year on highways, control of water pollution, and farm and other programs. His tactics have unified Congressmen of every ideology against what they consider a defiance of their constitutional power to control spending...