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the Budget and for a Federal Program Evaluation Commission in “efforts, supported by many members of Congress of both parties, to enable the people’s representatives in Congress to establish, early in each Congress the limits of federal spending for a Fiscal year, and to find out which programs have been, or are likely to be, worth the money spent on them.”
“This is not the whole answer, of course,” Marsh emphasized, “because, in the last analysis, the people of the entire nation-not of one Congressional District or of one State-must come to an understanding and to a decision as to the types of things they want done for them by the Federal Government, and the costs of these activities.”
He indicated that the Congress ' would be coming under1 “increasingly heavy demand for funding of programs directed , toward the needs of large metropolitan areas-the big cities •n which the great concentrations of our national population reside and which, under ^our representative system of national government, have substantial leverage through the number of their elected representatives in both houses of the Congress.” Marsh pointed out that he was speaking “in advance of the recommendations to Congress of the new President” and added that he believed that members of both parties would “receive these recommendations with great interest, and respect, and then move to evaluate tnem in accordance with their individual philosophies of government, and the needs and views of their districts and States - the traditional and proper exercise of the representative function under our separation of powers.” “It would be my hope that the Congress first would see some guidelines, based on anticipated revenue, as to the outside limits of federal spending,” Marsh commented, adding that he recognized “the uncertainties of future defense costs.”
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