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President Barack Obama submitted his fiscal year 2015 budget request on March 4, 2014. This budget proposal was one of several proposed budgets considered in the process of creating the 2015 United States federal budget. President Obama's proposed budget was for $3.9 trillion. President Obama's budget proposal was described as being full of "populist proposals" and as a "populist wish list."〔〔 The proposal was not seen as politically practical measure that would be used or taken seriously by Congress.〔〔 The White House described this budget as "a budget he would implement in an ideal world."〔 ==History== The U.S. Constitution does not give the President a role in the appropriations or budgeting process. Instead, after World War I and under President Warren G. Harding, Congress passed the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 to establish an executive branch budgeting process, in reaction to growing spending.〔 This law created the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)) and the General Accounting Office (now Government Accountability Office (GOA)) to assist in this process. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 later established budgeting rules for Congress itself. Today, the United States budget process traditionally begins when the President submits a budget request to Congress. The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 requires the President to submit the budget to Congress for each fiscal year which is the 12-month period beginning on October 1 and ending on September 30 of the next calendar year. The current federal budget law ((a)) requires that the President submit his or her budget request between the first Monday in January and the first Monday in February. In recent times, the President's budget submission has been issued in the first week of February.〔(31 U.S.C. 1105(a) ) on (Cornell Legal Information Institute )〕 The budget submission has been delayed, however, in some new presidents' first year when the previous president belonged to a different party. The President's budget is formulated over a period of months with the assistance of the Office of Management and Budget, the largest office within the Executive Office of the President. The budget request includes funding requests for all federal executive departments and independent agencies for the following year. Budget documents include supporting documents and historical budget data and contains detailed information on spending and revenue proposals, along with policy proposals and initiatives with significant budgetary implications. In addition, each federal executive department and independent agency provides additional detail and supporting documentation on its own funding requests. The documents are also posted on the (OMB website ). The budget the President submits is a ''request'' only. However, some people consider "the power to formulate and submit the budget... a vital tool in the President’s direction of the executive branch and of national policy."〔 The President's budget request can influence the decisions made by Congress; the degree of influence changes based on political and fiscal factors.〔 President Obama's budget proposal is a "comprehensive assembly of the White House's policy proposals and economic projections."〔 President Obama did not release his 2015 budget proposal until March 4, 2014, a delay he said was due to the need to wait for the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 to be agreed to in December 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2015 United States presidential budget request」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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