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I believe that all of us are quite aware that budgeting

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is the heart of the policy process in government in the

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system of assigning priorities.

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Also many references have been made from time

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to time about the Goodnow Commission which in 1915 made

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recommendations concerning the budgetary process. I think

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by a somewhat different route, not a greatly different

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route, but by a somewhat different route and by more mod err

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procedures, this amendment ac hieves what the Goodnow

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Commission sought to achieve.

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If I might read just briefly from the report

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of the Goodnow Commission. It said on page 10 of its

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report:

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"It was recognized that the weakness of all

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American financial methods, in the Congress of the United

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States, as well as in the Legislatures of the separate

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States, was to be found in the practice to which all American

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legislative bodies are addicted of adding either to the

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amounts demanded by the administrative departments, or to

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the items for which appropriations were asked."

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"The Commission is of the opinion --" it went