Changes

From the perspective of the appropriations committees, funding by these forms of spending authority slips away from their control through legislative back doors. The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 allowed older forms of backdoor spending to be grandfathered in but attempted to give the appropriations committees some control over [[new spending]], or new borrowing and contract authority. ([http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/2/651 2 U.S.C. § 651}]

From the perspective of the appropriations committees, funding by these forms of spending authority slips away from their control through legislative back doors. The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 allowed older forms of backdoor spending to be grandfathered in but attempted to give the appropriations committees some control over [[new spending]], or new borrowing and contract authority. ([http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/2/651 2 U.S.C. § 651}]

==Exceptions==

== Exceptions to statutory limitations on backdoor spending ==

There are many exceptions to this procedural rule.  First, although this requirement is a law, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives has ruled that it can be waived if the House adopts a recommendation to do so from the House Rules Committee.<ref>121 Cong. Rec. 7677, 94th Cong. 1st Sess., Mar. 20, 1975 (ruling by Speaker Carl Albert [Okla.]).</ref> Second, it applies only to consideration of new legislation after 1975. Third, broad categories involving gifts and trust funds were exempt.<ref>2 U.S.C. § 651(c)</ref>  

There are many exceptions to this procedural rule.  First, although this requirement is a law, the Speaker of the [[US House of Representatives]] has ruled that it can be waived if the House adopts a recommendation to do so from the House Rules Committee.<ref>121 Cong. Rec. 7677, 94th Cong. 1st Sess., Mar. 20, 1975 (ruling by Speaker Carl Albert [Okla.]).</ref> Second, it applies only to consideration of new legislation after 1975. Third, broad categories involving gifts and trust funds were exempt.<ref>2 U.S.C. § 651(c)</ref>

==Origins and issues==

==Origins and issues==