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Advanced Federal Budget Process
Current Budget Politics and the Federal Budget Process

Get an advanced understanding of the budget process. Learn how the federal budget process really works from faculty members with years of subject-matter expertise. Study important terminology and get tips to protect your budgetary interests.

We provide a comprehensive overview of current budget politics and the federal budgeting process. So you gain the awareness and guidance necessary to increase your chance of boosting funds and minimizing cuts. Understand the budget resolution process as well as the differences between authorizations and appropriations.

Learn how to recognize various budget documents so you can use them most effectively. We will also review and discuss transparency and accountability in the budget process and OMB's tools for program performance assessment. Finally, we explore professional online budget research resources.

 


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The online budget research sources we reference are located at TCNBudget.com

The leadership competencies for this course include:

  • Accountability

  • External Awareness

  • Strategic Thinking

  • Financial Management

  • Political Savvy


This sponsored course is tailored for your group's specific needs.

The program fee for sponsored courses includes program development, faculty, and course materials, presented in the DC area at your location, for up to 20 attendees. *  We will contact you after we receive your registration to finalize details.

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  • Capitol Learning Federal Budgeting Audio Courses
  • The Budget Execution Process
  • Budget Formulation, Justification, and Execution
  • The Federal Budget Process
  • How to Read and Decipher the Department of Defense Budget
  • Congress, the Legislative Process, and the Fundamentals of Lawmaking, A Nine Course Series

 

 Special Budget Courses
Budget Formulation, Justification and Execution

The President's Budget

The Defense Budget

  Course Materials

The Federal Budget Process

Course materials include The Federal Budget Process.

 



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Advanced Federal Budget Process

8:30 - 4:00 pm both days
(Networking lunch 12 noon both days)

Day One

The Budget and the Economy

  • The federal budget - key components and concepts

  • How the federal deficit was ended - and returned

  • Current deficit and debt projections

  • 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 Budget Control Act and the "fiscal cliff"

  • 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

  • Characteristics of the budget resolution

  • How to interpret the budget aggregates, functional allocations contained in the budget resolution

  • Relationship of the budget resolution to committee action

  • Enforcing the budget framework through reconciliation

  • 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

Day Two

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

The Budget: Short- and Long-Term Prospects

  • Continuing Resolutions (CRs)

  • "Fiscal Cliff"

  • Sequestration

  • And other current topics


This course and any combination of its topics are also available as custom, on-site training.  


Do you need a training course we don't offer or coverage of an additional topic in this course?

If you have suggestions for courses or topics you would like to see us offer, please contact us or complete our online suggestion form.


Suggested PrerequisitesKnowledge 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.

If you need help deciding which courses you should take based on your work experience or training, please contact us via email or phone: 202-678-1600.

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8:30 am to 4:00 pm both days

  • This Sponsored Course requires two (2) days

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LocationThis course can be presented at your location in Washington, DC, or at a location in Washington, DC, that we provide.  *

For a map with a brief list of hotels near the Capitol, click here. When we arrange space, we use these Washington, DC, locations.

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A Certificate of Training is available for this course. To get a Certificate of Training , your registration fee must be paid in full, and you must attend the entire course.

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Related Training
  • Understanding Congressional Budgeting and Appropriations

  • Congressional Operations Briefing - Capitol Hill Workshop

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$22,500 - for up to 20 attendees * 
The program fee includes program development, faculty, and course materials and presentation at your DC-area location for up to 20 attendees (sponsor provides classroom space, AV, and any breaks and lunch). For an additional fee, we can also provide classroom space in the DC area for up to 20 attendees, AV, breaks and lunch. We will contact you after we receive your registration to finalize details.  Registration and payment at least 3 weeks before the course is required so the program can be customized for your specific needs. For more information see FAQs About Our Sponsored Courses.

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Rave Reviews

"Good follow-up to the Understanding Congressional Budgeting 1 day course. Filled in the gaps in knowledge with applicable examples."  
--
Associate, Fortune 500 Company

 

"I feel more comfortable in the preparation of my budget and the process it will go through on the Hill." 
-- Budget Analyst, Treasury Dept.

 

"An excellent introduction to the federal budget process - at a level usable for the federal agency lawyer."

 

"[Faculty] very interesting, knowledgeable & able to explain complicated budget process." 
-- Program Analyst, Dept. of Energy

 

"Strongly recommend this course to other members in my office.  Superb presentation."  
--
Legislative Policy Analyst for HQ

 

"Practical suggestions for working with appropriators to maximize funds."  
-- 
Congressional Liaison, DEA

 

See more testimonials about this program.

 

Faculty

Our faculty for this course are all Hill veterans with current budget experience.

 

Select Previous Faculty

Clinton Brass

Hon. Jim Lightfoot

Roy Meyers

James Saturno

Allen Schick

Hon. Robert Walker

 

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Military

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