Word: omb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under federal law, the executive branch--of which the OMB is a part--is not permitted to impound appropriations without Congressional approval...
Nevertheless, OMB ordered that 650 of the proposals receive a full two or three years of funding this year instead of 1500 additional year-long grants...
Under the OMB plan, only the 4350 remaining grants would be up for renewal, so that less money would be spent during the next two years...
Legislators and research lobbvists have claimed OMB circumvented Congressional intent...
...ruling, which was requested by the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education sub-committee on appropriations, found OMB broke the law because it did not have sufficient cause to extend the annual funding beyond the first year...