Inspectors General The National Perfo

Major reforms in the way government conducts its business and accounts for itself were enacted in the last 25 years (Kamensky, 1996, pp. 3-6). They reflect an intense insistence on accountability, a respect for professionalism, and a growing concern about the federal deficit. One of the earlier measures was the Congressional Budget Impoundment and Control Act of 1974. This was initially intended to preclude the president from preventing the expenditure of appropriated funds but has since become the mechanism for reducing expenditures. It subjected the expenditures from all appropriations committees to overall spending and revenue targets, chartered the congressional budget committees, established the reconciliation process, and through later amendments and refinements defined and tried to control the federal deficit.

The emergence of the Inspectors General--first in the Department of Health Education and Welfare (1976) and later (1978) in other fe

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