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The insistence by the Executive that the NEP must be approved by the House "lock, stock and barrel" without amendments is unacceptable

Press Release

  

The insistence by the Executive that the National Expenditure Program (NEP) or the national budget proposed by the President must be approved by the House “lock, stock and barrel” without amendments is completely unacceptable.

            The House leadership and membership must not succumb to this arrogant imposition because the NEP is not untouchable.

 If the Executive would refuse to relax its stance, the approval of the national budget on second reading can be jeopardized.

             The Congress has never deferred to the NEP as sacrosanct because it is constitutionally and traditionally subjected to legislative scrutiny, realignment and selective rejection.

              The congressional leadership would be committing treason against the House, where all appropriation bills originate and which has control over the nation’s purse strings, if it will surrender to the Executive’s unreasonable demand.