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:See the cite I just put in, "Borrowing authority, also known as ability to spend debt receipts". Borrowing authority is spending authority [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Backdoor_spending_authority&diff=prev&oldid=1028686]. Several GAO Inspector Generals over decades all use backdoor authority and spending authority interchangeably. The confusion stems from authors like Ruth Marcus who wrote only yesterday, "''The other points of leverage [for the GOP] — a government shutdown as spending authority expires, or allowing the [[spending sequester]] to take effect after the two-month delay — will also prove too painful and dangerous for Republicans to exploit''" [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ruth-marcus-fiscal-cliff-fight-poisons-mood-for-more-compromise/2013/01/08/ebd783bc-59d2-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html], when she just as easily could have wrote, ''"a government shutdown as [[backdoor authority]] expires...

:See the cite I just put in, "Borrowing authority, also known as ability to spend debt receipts". Borrowing authority is spending authority [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Backdoor_spending_authority&diff=prev&oldid=1028686]. Several GAO Inspector Generals over decades all use backdoor authority and spending authority interchangeably. The confusion stems from authors like Ruth Marcus who wrote only yesterday, "''The other points of leverage [for the GOP] — a government shutdown as spending authority expires, or allowing the [[spending sequester]] to take effect after the two-month delay — will also prove too painful and dangerous for Republicans to exploit''" [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ruth-marcus-fiscal-cliff-fight-poisons-mood-for-more-compromise/2013/01/08/ebd783bc-59d2-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html], when she just as easily could have wrote, ''"a government shutdown as [[backdoor authority]] expires...

:As for me, I'm out for tonite. Looking forward to working with you on this later.  [[User:OscarO|OscarO]] 02:42, 11 January 2013 (EST)

:As for me, I'm out for tonite. Looking forward to working with you on this later.  [[User:OscarO|OscarO]] 02:42, 11 January 2013 (EST)

==Statutory basis==

==Statutory basis==

The new material added in the past hour discusses "Section 401(d)" but I can't find that provision.  Could we please agree to include citations to the US Code and perhaps links to the gpo or www.law.cornell.edu website so that readers can follow the discussion and read each law for himself? Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 13:32, 11 January 2013 (EST)

The new material added in the past hour discusses "Section 401(d)" but I can't find that provision.  Could we please agree to include citations to the US Code and perhaps links to the gpo or www.law.cornell.edu website so that readers can follow the discussion and read each law for himself? Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 13:32, 11 January 2013 (EST)

: I have cleaned up this page, which had a lot of incorrect information. For example the effective date was the start of the Second Session of the 94 Congress (1976), not 1974.  This whole topic is "inside baseball" and can be very complicated.  It is really not that important to the current debate over the fiscal crisis, but if the article will remain, it should be correct.  The text confused spending authority with "tax expenditures" which are completely different.  Both have a negative impact on the deficit, but "tax expenditures" can be enacted without going through an appropriations committee. Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 23:03, 12 January 2013 (EST)

: I have cleaned up this page, which had a lot of incorrect information. For example the effective date was the start of the Second Session of the 94 Congress (1976), not 1974.  This whole topic is "inside baseball" and can be very complicated.  It is really not that important to the current debate over the fiscal crisis, but if the article will remain, it should be correct.  The text confused spending authority with "tax expenditures" which are completely different.  Both have a negative impact on the deficit, but "tax expenditures" can be enacted without going through an appropriations committee. Thanks, [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 23:03, 12 January 2013 (EST)

::I still cannot find a source for the portion of the article text that claims that tax expeditures are subject to 2 USC 651.  What is the source for the phrase "to allow United States government executive departments and agencies to forgo collection of proprietary offsetting receipts"?  If you can't come up with a source it should all go out. [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 00:01, 13 January 2013 (EST)

::I still cannot find a source for the portion of the article text that claims that tax expeditures are subject to 2 USC 651.  What is the source for the phrase "to allow United States government executive departments and agencies to forgo collection of proprietary offsetting receipts"?  If you can't come up with a source it should all go out. [[User:Wschact|Wschact]] 00:01, 13 January 2013 (EST)