So I would keep the budget act, basically, as we know it.

In fact, under the 1990 budget act, military savings this year can be used only to reduce the deficit.

The House faced the 1990 budget act's spending limits twice last week.

This would be permitted under last year's budget act with the declaration of an emergency.

The amount of state money available for the program is determined every year through the Budget Act.

The reconciliation procedure, created under the 1974 budget act, is one used when Congress wants to reduce the deficit.

Today's conflicts, he said, can be traced to specific legislative actions, such as the 1974 budget act.

The President's budget director criticized the plan as a violation of last year's budget act.

It would allow financing by declaring the unemployment situation an emergency, as last year's budget act allows.

In doing so, he is formally abandoning the spending limits required by the 1997 balanced budget act.