Speech #990026027

In such cases. the President is to submit a special message to the Congress recommending the deferral of that budget authority. The President is requed to make such budget authority available for obligation if either House passes an "impoundment resolution" disapproving the proposed deferral at any time after receipt of the special message. The Supreme Court in INS versus Chadha invalidated a oneHouse legislative veto in the Immigration and Nationality Act in terms so sweeping as to render suspect all such legislative veto devices. Under* the Chadha rationale. the onehouse disapproval of Presidential deferrals of budget authority would likely be held unconstitutional. In reviewing the history of the Impoundment Control Act. it is highly unlikely that the Congress. on the heels of nearly unanimous Judicial reJection of Presidential impoundment authority and as part of comprehensive legislation designed to wrest control of the budget process from the President. would have delegated such an impoundment without the oneHouse legislative veto check.