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Rep. John O. Marsh, Jr., has offered in the House a bill designed “to recapture the control over the public purse which the , Constitution assigns to the Congress". The measure would establi h a Joint Congressional Committee on the Budget, staffed with fiscal experts competent to “examine and question" budget estimates of federal departments and agencies. The purpose, Marsh explained, would be to “free the appropriations committees of House and Sen1 ate from their present heavy dependence on the explanations and justifications of budget [ items given by the bureaucrats
j who hope to spend the money”. | , The Marsh bill is identical l with one sponsored in the SenI ate by Chairman John L. McClellan (D. Ark. i of the GovI ernment Operations Committee, in association with Senators Byrd and Robertson of Virginia and others, i Congressman Marsh made i this statement: ! “The Federal Government i has become so large, and its budget so complicated, that the members of the appropriations committees, with limited terhi nical staff assistance, often are i frustrated in their efforts to 1 make intelligent reductions in spending programs, or to follow up on those previously approved. Th° result is that, each year, thousands of items, many of them involving millions of dollars, are approved because the agency budget people have made a glib and convincing i justification. Other items may be cut by an arbitrary percen! tage, because the committees | have no basis on which to make i a more intelligent appraisal. “I find that many citizens, including many members of | Congress, are disturbed by the I size of the federal budget, as | I am. This I believe, is a prop
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