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Ch. 14 Vocab - President, Congress and Taxation

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The _____ Act was a a 1935 law passed during the Great Depression that was intended to provide a minimal level of sustenance to older Americans and thus save them from poverty.
An ______ bill is an act of Congress that actually funds programs within limits established by authorization bills. It usually covers one year.
The _____ (two words) Committee that, along with the House Ways and Means Committee, writes the tax codes, subject to the approval of Congress as a whole.
_____ resolutions occur when Congress cannot reach agreement and pass appropriations bills. allow to spend at the level of previous years
The ______ (4 words) Committee is a House of Representatives committee that, along with the Senate Finance Committee, writes the tax codes, subject to the approval of Congress as a whole
A ____ occurs when federal expenditures exceed federal revenues
____ (two words) are expenditures that are determined not by a fixed amount of money appropriated by Congress but by how many eligible beneficiaries there are for a program or by previous obligations of the government.
____ are the financial resources of the federal government. The individual income tax and Social Security tax are two major sources of these.
The ___ (two words) is all the money borrowed by the federal government over the years and still outstanding. Today it is more than $9 trillion
An ____ bill is an act of Congress that establishes, continues, or changes a discretionary government program or an entitlement. It specifies program goals and maximum expenditures for discretionary programs.
____ was a program added to the Social Security system in 1965 that provides hospitalization insurance for the elderly and permits older Americans to purchase inexpensive coverage for doctor fees and other health expenses.
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The _____ (two words) was the constitutional amendment adopted in 1913 that explicitly permitted Congress to levy an income tax.
_____ (two words) are revenue losses that result from special exemptions, exclusions, or deductions on the federal tax law.
_______are policies for which Congress has obligated itself to pay X level of benefits to Y number of recipients that must be eligible for the benefits.
_____ are Federal spending of revenues. Major areas such as spending are social services and the military.
_____ is a congressional process though which program authorizations are revised to achieve required savings. It also usually also includes tax or other revenue adjustment.
______ is the belief that the best predictor of this year's budget is the last year's budget, plus a little bit more.
Congressional Budget and ____ Control Act of 1974 was designed to reform the congressional budgetary process. Its supporters hoped that it would also make Congress less dependent on the president's budget and better able to set and meet its own budgetary goals.
An ____ (two words) are shares of individual wages and corporate revenues collected by the government. The Sixteenth Amendment explicitly authorized Congress to levy this.
A _____ is a policy document allocating burdens (taxes) and benefits (expenditures).
A ____ Resolution binds Congress to a total expenditure level, supposedly the bottom line of all federal spending for all programs.
The Internal _____ Service is an office established to collect federal income taxes, investigate violations of the tax laws, and prosecute tax criminals