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"I have been associated with the Budget Bureau
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since 1939, and I believe in the interim period no sub-
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stantial change has been made by Consitutional Amendment of
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Article 3, affecting the provisions contained therein for
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executive budget control.
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"From my association through the National
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Association of State Budget Officers for over some nineteen
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years with the budget administrators of other states, 1
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believe that Maryland has the best and strongest executive
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budget system of any state, 1 know that we are the envy of
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most other state administrators. The system has worked
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well and has protected the financial integrity of the
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State, and I have no -recommendation for any change in
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Section 52. I believe that House Bill No. 290-Mandel
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(Chapter 416) recently enacted by the 1966 session, though
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apparently harmless in its provisions, might become the
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first inroad into the present controls."
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If 1 might digress here; that is the bill to
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let supplemental appropriations bills move through one
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house before the final passage of the budget. It is
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supposed to give them more time at the end to prevent the
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