OMB and the Hazards of Presidential Staff Work

Berman, Larry

doi:10.2307/976031

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“…This, in turn, can affect both the timing and the geographic location of many funding allocations (Hudak 1974, 173). In the case of politically sensitive grants, OMB has even insisted that agencies seek preclearance before the grants are awarded to ensure that allocation decisions are consistent with presidential priorities (Berman , 521; Lewis , 11). Moreover, in addition to its preclearance authority over agency budgetary proposals, OMB also has control over the apportionment of funds once appropriated.…”

Section: The Mechanisms Of Presidential Influence Over Spendingmentioning

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All the President's Senators: Presidential Copartisans and the Allocation of Federal Grants

Christenson

Kriner

Reeves

2016

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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Previous scholarship argues that House members' partisan relationship to the president is among the most important determinants of the share of federal dollars they bring home to their constituents. Do presidential politics also shape distributive outcomes in the Senate? Analyzing the allocation of more than $8.5 trillion of federal grants across the states from 1984 to 2008, we show that presidential copartisan senators are more successful than opposition party members in securing federal dollars for their home states. Moreover, presidents appear to target grants ex post to states that gain presidential copartisans in recent elections.

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Section: The Mechanisms Of Presidential Influence Over Spendingmentioning

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All the President's Senators: Presidential Copartisans and the Allocation of Federal Grants

Christenson

Kriner

Reeves

2016

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“…The organization's history is therefore colored by persistent frustration and fitful efforts at reorganization and repair (Rudalevige 2003). Activist presidencies have yielded perennial complaints about OMB's lack of flexibility (Berman 1978), and as presidential orientations toward federal policies and the agencies administering them have become increasingly variable, presidents often find OMB's informal arrangements-its culture and commitmentsparticularly frustrating because they are difficult and time-consuming to reengineer.…”

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