I co-direct the Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group, a nonpartisan gathering of scholars and congressional staff that aims to “make Congress great again.” We meet each month on the Hill to discuss aspects of congressional capacity, and to commission and produce research on the subject.
So, obviously I was REALLY delighted to be invited to testify at this House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing yesterday, which considered Congress’ power of the purse.
It’s a big topic, and we focused on just a sliver of it — agencies’ authority to collect money from the public in the form of user fees, fines and the like, and then yp spend it. The president’s FY2017 budget reports the government collected $516 billion from the public this past year….(Read more at the R Street Institute Blog)
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