Speech #1000012587

I ris introduce a bill to strike the deferra in the Impoundment Control Act (titl 93344). under this act. deferrals mt posed by the President whenever tive action or inaction effectively pre obligation or expenditure of budget In such cases. the President is to special message to the Congres mending the deferral of that budget Char- The President is required to make such tr rer New budget authority available for obligation if either House passes an "impoundment resolu17 7 tion" disapproving the proposed deferral at any time after receipt of the special message. . The Supreme Court in INS v. 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 rationJr... 14 15 ale. the oneHouse disapproval of Presidential deferrals of budget authority would likely be 24 9 held unconstitutional. In reviewing the history of the Impoundment 25 9 Control Act it is highly unlikely that the Congress. on the heels of nearly unanimous judi21 15 cial 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 one26 8 House legislative veto check.