Office of Management and Budget
Magaly Garcia
PPA 603: Government Budgeting
Instructor: Ian Cole
March 30, 2015
Office of Management and Budget The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), oversees and coordinates the Administration 's regulatory, procurement, financial management, information technology, and information management policies. OMB assists the President in overseeing the preparation of the Federal budget and evaluates the effectiveness of agency programs, policies, and procedures, and works to make sure that agency reports, rules, testimony, and proposed legislation are consistent with the President 's budget and with Administration policies. (WhiteHouse.gov). OMB is considered to be the proprietor of all budgets that regulate agencies in the public service sector. This office is very important within our government because it regulates, submits, and plans what our country will be spending on for the next fiscal year.
In the Executive Branch of the government, the President is responsible for submitting an annual budget to Congress. Office of
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References
Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget. (2014). Circular NO. A-11. Part 1, General Information. Retrieved from: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/a11_current_year/s10.pdf
Executive Office of the President. Office of Management and Budget. Analytical Perspectives. Retrieved from: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Analytical_Perspectives
Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget. OMB’s Mission. Retrieved from: http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/omb/organization/role.html
House of Representatives Committee on the Budget. The Budget. Retrieved from: http://budget.house.gov/budgetprocess/
Lee, R., Johnson, R., & Joyce, P. (2008). Public Budgeting Systems (8th ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
Treasure Inspector General for Tax Administration. Budget Formulation
The President of the United States is the face of the government and the figure people turn to most to voice their concerns. The president doesn't do it all alone though. It's impossible to manage a country by yourself. For that reason, the president appoints a collection of people to lead the various departments. Do you know them all?
As with the other legislatives bureaus, the Fiscal Bureau is thouroughly bipartisan. The duties of this bureau include presenting the Legislature with any relevant fiscal information that may assist them in decision making, suggesting alternatives to both the state budget and state expenditures, and serving as staff to the Joint Committee on Finance. Additionally, they respond to any requests made by the Joint Committee or the standing Legislature regarding fiscal matters and complete fiscal analyses of state programs to aid the legislature in its decisions regarding these programs. The organization of the bureau is broken down into sections such as Education and Building Programs, Health Services and Insurance, Transportation and Property Tax Relief, and more. This way, requests for information can be filed into one of six categories and handled by that specific section.
Congress is responsible for making bills that the President signs to officially become a law. Congress also creates a budget for the federal government, and uses the government spendings. This role differs from what the executive branch does. The executive branch is made up of the President who is the chief executive, the presidential cabinets, executive departments, and federal agencies. The role of the executive branch is to enforce laws of the U.S through foreign and domestic policies.
The Vice President is responsible for the Senate as he is the leader of that house. The President’s Cabinet is selected by the president with the senate’s approval. The Cabinet consists of the Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Health, Secretary of Housing, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the Secretary of Homeland Security. All of these positions are in charge of a different department. Within the executive branch there is many positions such as the United States Postal Service, NASA, CIA, or the Environmental Protection Agency, these agencies are not appointed by the president and are elected based off of popular vote.
There are 15 executive departments that carry out administration of the government. These 15 executive departments are joined by other agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency. The President address’s the heads of 50 federal commissions. This consists of the Securities and Exchange commission and the Federal Reserve Board. The EOP (Executive Office of the President) is a group of staff for the President.
The preamble is a summary why the framers of the constitution made our government a republic. That the framers established the Constitution so that the united states would have better unity, have some equal treatment, have peace between each other, they would have a from a defense from intruders. Article 1 section one tells us that the legislative powers will be granted to congress to make laws, but is separated in to two congress the senate and House of Representatives. Article 1 section two informs us that every second year the House of Representatives shall have new members. If you want to run to be a representative of your state, you will have to be at the age of 25 years old and also has to be a citizen for seven years of the united States.
Atkins, Chris. " Tax Reform and Revenue Neutrality: President 's Panel Should Avoid the Redistribution of 1986. " Tax Foundation. July 13, 2005. Accessed October 25, 2016.
The president also checks the legislative branch by calling special sessions of Congress. If there needs to be an urgent meeting between the president and the legislative branch they can do it. The judicial branch gets checked by the executive branch when the president appoints Supreme Court and Federal Judges. The president can choose who gets to work in the Supreme court. The executive branch
The mission statement for the Department of Homeland Security was developed after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. It was immediately evident that our country was vulnerable to attacks from within and from outside of our borders. The White House acted quickly and within 11 days appointed Pennsylvania Governor, Tom Ridge, the first Director of Homeland Security in the White House (Homeland Security, 2015). Their mission statement is as follows: “The vision of homeland security is to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards” (Homeland Security, 2015).
The president is assisted by hundreds of policy specialist’s, people whose expertise is trained for complex legislative initiatives. The president is supported directly and through executive agencies. Congress on the other hand has a small bureaucracy in comparison to the president. The three agencies that make up Congress’s bureaucracy include, Congressional Budget Office, Government Accountability Office, and Congressional Research service. All of these agencies are helpful, but in comparison to the level of expertise that the president is provided with when facing complex legislative initiatives, is much greater than that of Congress, (Patterson,
This procedure consists of a series of public service branches concerned with all governmental administrative functions outside the armed services. The Office of Personnel Management; or OPM, is the office in charge of hiring for most of the federal government, by using a collection of elaborate rules and procedures in the process of hiring, working conditions, and dismissal that governs the employees who work in career positions within the
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They are responsible, as the guiding committee of Parliament, for the preparation and enactment of most legislation and of the budget. Now, the Republic system as opposed to the Westminster system is one of representative government, while the Westminster system is one of responsible government, which means that the executive is responsible to the legislature, and requires its confidence to remain in power. While in the U.S system, the executive are separate from the legislature, in the
Introduction Budget deficit is the measure of how much the total government expenditure exceeds the total amount of revenue and always measured yearly while public borrowing on the other hand is the measure of the total amount owed by the government. It is also referred to as the national debt (Bohn, 2008). Government spending has two branches that is discretionary spending and mandatory spending. Discretionary spending is where it is optional and implemented by the congress while mandatory spending built in the budget as required by law. Question one
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