B
Babbitt, Bruce, 521 -22
Bagehot, Walter, 421
Baker, Howard, 63 , 89 , 96 -97, 104 -5, 111 , 114 , 118 -21, 126 , 143 , 152 -53, 160 , 177 , 188 , 190 -93, 196 , 202 , 207 -8, 218 -19, 226 , 230 , 233 , 236 , 238 , 240 , 243 , 278 , 290 , 292 , 296 , 302 , 306 -8, 311 -12, 326 , 341 , 349 , 361 , 368 -71, 375 , 378 -80, 383 , 388 , 392 , 395 -98, 400 , 407 -8, 411 , 429 , 520
Baker, James, 82 , 87 -88, 101 , 104 , 118 -19, 121 , 134 -35, 164 -66, 170 , 186 , 188 , 190 , 199 , 202 , 234 -37, 244 , 254 -55, 319 , 369 , 388 , 390 , 422 , 429 -30, 443 , 448 , 474 , 480 , 483 -84, 487 , 495 , 519 -20, 587
Balanced Budget Amendment, 76 , 77 , 274 -83, 285 , 410 , 423 , 440 , 509 , 614 -15n.38
Balanced Budget ideal:
constraint on program action, 247 , 285 -86, 292 -93, 374 , 410
as conventional wisdom, 20 -21, 30 -31, 49 -50, 52 , 55 , 64 , 95 , 115 , 219 , 233 , 237 , 270 , 519 -521, 527 -29, 545 , 562 , 570
Democrats, 20 -21, 52 , 55 , 246 -47, 410 , 548
and Reaganomics, 69 -70, 75 -76, 79 , 84 -85, 97 , 112 , 131 , 149 , 156 -57, 183 , 193 , 272 -73, 443 , 508 -9
and Senate Republicans, 97 , 120 -21, 125 -26, 246 -47
as symbol of governance, 427 -28, 431 , 530 , 543 , 558 -60, 565
See also Balanced Budget Amendments; Deficit—consequences; Reagan, Ronald—moral economy; Responsible (or respectable) opinion
Balanced Budget Reaffirmation Act of 1987, 566
Baldrige, Malcolm, 105 , 196 , 235 , 385
Ball, Robert, 239 , 311 , 317 , 319 -21
Barone, Michael, 218
Barrett, Laurence, 71 , 88 , 177 , 199
Baucus, Max, 397
Bauer, Raymond, 543
Bell, Stephen E., 89 , 96 -97, 165 , 396 , 447
Bennett, Charles, 176
Benson, Richard, 266
Bentsen, Lloyd, 34 -35, 52 , 54 , 163 , 173 , 488 , 568
Berra, Yogi, 430
Berry, John, 23
Biaggi, Mario, 179 -80
Biden, Joseph R., Jr., 397
Black Caucus, 34 , 40 -41, 245 -46, 394 , 414 , 450
Blackmun, Justice, 511
"Bloated Omnibus Money Bill" (BOMB), 514 , 15
"Blue Book," 416 -18, 422 , 630 ,
Bolger, William, F., 144
Bolling, Richard, 46 , 55 , 93 , 138 -39, 154 , 235 -41, 245 , 280
Boll Weevils:
and defense, 40 -41
return to party, 244 -45, 393 -94, 446 , 450
spending, 1981, 91 -93, 114 -15, 122 -23, 125 , 127 , 129 , 142 , 144 , 147 -48
taxes, 1981, 158 -66
See also Cleavages in the House; Democratic Party
Boner, William, 598
Boschwitz, Rudy, 230 , 484 , 488
Boskin, Michael, 359
"Bracket creep," 19 , 76 , 79 , 117 , 175 , 180 , 503
Brademas, John, 32 , 53 , 73 , 92
Bradley, Bill, 160 , 170 , 252 , 473 -75, 478 , 485 -86, 488 , 493 , 495 -97, 503 , 508
Brady, Nicholas, 655
Brandon, Richard N., 397
Braybrooke, David, 557
Brinkley, Jack, 598
Brittan, Samuel, 540
Broadhead, William, 31 , 43 , 151 , 175
Brock, Bill, 101
Brockway, David H., 486
Brookings, Institution, 28 , 315 , 546 , 577 , 656
Brown, Edmund G. (Jerry), 19
Brown, George, E., Jr., 496
Broyhill, James, 142 , 148 , 150 , 152
Budget, as dominant issue, xiii -xviii, 521
Budget Act of 1974, 12 , 44 -45, 79 , 503
Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, 7 -8
Budgetary base, 193 , 195 , 203 , 211 -217, 233 , 288 , 291
See also Budgeting
Budgetary process:
accounting gimmicks,
514 , 516 , 520 -21, 530 , 568
business groups, 533
choices, 452 , 460 , 525 , 534 , 569 , 573
compromise, 508 -9
dissensus, 430 , 437 -38, 446 , 517 , 524 , 563 -66
game playing, 513
hostage-taking, 432 , 517 , 559
interest groups, 433
See also Budgeting; Budget authority vs. outlays ;Control procedures
Budgetary terrorism, 431 -32, 560
Budget authority vs. outlays, xiv , 2 -3, 35 -36, 39 , 142 -43, 191 , 200 -202, 435 , 449 , 456 -62, 524
See also Fakery; Score-keeping
Budget Control and Impoundment Act of 1974, 11
Budgeting:
as commitments, 2 -5, 11 , 104 , 135 -36, 287 -88, 327 -30, 337 , 340 -41, 541
purposes, xiii -xiv, xvi , 2 , 7 , 17
Budget procedures. See Control Procedures; Procedural Collapse; Procedure vs. Substance
Bush, George, 87 , 122 , 129 , 131 , 325 , 389 , 433 , 521 , 522 , 567 , 569
Byrd, Robert, 32 , 50 , 54 , 57 , 131 , 153 , 160 , 243 , 311 , 326 , 351 , 370 , 379 , 390 , 393 , 408 , 433 , 446 , 462
Byron, Beverly, 178