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Lunch and breaks will be
scheduled as appropriate each day
Welcome and Introduction
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The Budget and the Economy
- How the federal deficit was ended – and returned
- Implications for the politics of budgeting
Federal Budget Phases and Time Frames
- Presidential and agency formulation
- Congressional action on the executive budget
- Budget execution and control
- Review and audit stage
Congressional Budgeting Today
- The framework and basic concepts of budgetary accounting
- The congressional budget process, key players and basic roles and relationships
- The two federal budget processes: discretionary and mandatory spending
- Budget authority versus budget outlays
STAGE I: The Congressional Budget Resolution and Reconciliation Process
- The budget resolution as a legislative framework
- How to interpret the budget aggregates, functional allocations contained in the budget resolution
- Enforcing the budget framework through reconciliation
- Why the budget resolution and budget enforcement rules no longer work
- PAYGO
STAGE II: Authorizations
- Key features and different types of authorization bills
- The relationship of authorization and appropriations legislation and how differences between the two are reconciled
- The trend toward annual authorizations and how this impacts power relationships in Congress
STAGE III: Appropriations
The traditional role of the House initiating appropriations bills; the rules and structure in place to move this "must pass" legislation through committee and floor consideration.
- Changes in the appropriations process including Senate initiation of appropriations bills, and conflict in the appropriating process
- How the various parts of an appropriations bill relate to one another
- How to interpret the nuances of legislative language (expects versus directs, may versus shall, etc.) in appropriations bills and reports
- Track Senate amendments to House-passed appropriations bills
- How the Senate's lack of formal rules and structure impacts the path of appropriations bills through the Senate; the use of unanimous consent
STAGE IV: Final Actions on Appropriations
- How differences between House and Senate legislation are reconciled
- How to interpret the conference report and to determine the status of your program and final dollar amounts agreed to by the conferees
STAGE V: The Budget Execution Process
- The flow of monies following the passage of appropriations including apportionment, allotments, obligations, and outlays by executive agencies
- Tracking and controlling the budget
- Accounting for budget execution
- Executing budgets within the law
Transparency and Accountability in the Budget Process
- Policy proposals and fiscal realities
- OMB’s tools for assessing program performance
- Principles and issues in performance measurement
Break
The Budget: Short- and Long-Term Prospects
All custom training is
tailored for each organization and audience. Topics from
this program can be combined with topics from our other
programs and with topics from your existing training
programs.
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Sample Agendas
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Sample agendas of
different versions
of this program
tailored for previous custom clients are available
in  Adobe
PDF.
See our Sample
Agendas page for more.
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Audience Level |
Attendees
should have a knowledge of, or a minimum of one
year's experience working with, the congressional
budget process, or completion of our Understanding
Congressional Budgeting and Appropriations
course recommended.
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Audience Size |
This
program is most effective for between 15 and 50
attendees.
Not enough staff for a custom, on-site
program? You can still train your staff at our
public course.
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Previous Clients |
Variations
of this program have been presented for federal
agencies.
Our selected
client list includes clients who have purchased
custom training, sent staff to our public programs
and who have purchased our publications.
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Faculty |
Our
faculty for this program all have more than 15
years' experience working with the federal budget.
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Rave Reviews
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"An excellent
introduction to the federal budget process - at a level
usable for the federal agency lawyer."
"Strongly recommend
this course to other members in my office. Superb
presentation." Legislative Policy Analyst
for HQ USAF
"Practical
suggestions for working with appropriators to maximize
funds." Congressional Liaison, DEA
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Course Materials |
Materials
can include a personal copy of The
Federal Budget by Allen Schick (Brookings) for each attendee.
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Length and Location |
Usually requires 2
days.
This program is usually held in
Washington, DC. It can be presented anywhere in the
United States and in many foreign countries.
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Internal Marketing |
To
help you
publicize and market a custom program to your
organization's audience, we can provide printed
materials and language for your own internal
promotion and publicity.
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Fee |
The
fee for this program depends on the location, number
of attendees, length, and training materials.
Call us for details, or complete our custom
program information request for more
information.
If you
don't have enough people for a custom, on-site program,
you can still train your staff at our public
course.
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What is included in the fee? |
TheCapitol.Net
tailors each program to meet your training and
educational objectives. Before we issue a cost
proposal, we will work with you to tailor a program
to meet your training objectives.
The
program
fee includes pre-program development and design,
materials for your internal marketing and promotion,
all course materials, and
faculty chosen for your topic and your audience
at the time and location you choose. Our
custom program clients provide the classroom/meeting
space, all audio visual equipment, any food and
beverages, all registration functions, and travel
arrangements for attendees. When the program is held
outside the Washington, DC metro area, travel
arrangements for faculty can be made by the client
or by us.
We can also provide meeting space,
audio visual equipment, food and beverage,
registration, and travel arrangements, though this
affects program cost.
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FAQs |
See
FAQs
About Our Custom On-Site Training.
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Payment |
Payment methods we accept for custom training
include checks and EFT/ACH.
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About Us |
TheCapitol.Net,
Inc., is a non-partisan small business,
and a Virginia corporation. We are registered
with CCR. See our
Capability Statement and our About Us page for more details.
FEIN: 54-1917701
DUNS: 04-273-5071
CAGE: 1K5S4
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