Impoundment: Articles and Additional Resources
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2025: Resources compiled by the House Appropriations Comm. Minority Staff:
Feb 25, 2025: The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 - CRS
Jan. 28, 2025: “The Overlooked Conundrums of Impoundment,” by Mark Thomas, A blog from the Yale Journal on Regulation and ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
Nov. 26, 2024: “How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse from Congress,” by Molly Redden, ProPublica.org. OMB Director Russell Vought and his allies argue the limits Congress placed in 1974 are unconstitutional, illogically asserting that a clause in the Constitution obligating the president to “faithfully execute” the law also implies his power to forbid its enforcement.
July 1, 2016: OMB Explanation of Impoundments, Rescissions, and Deferrals (Obama Administration)
August 1985: Senate Budget Committee Explanation of the Impoundment Control Act, by Charles S. Konigsberg
December 19, 1974: Testimony of CG Elmer B. Staats before the Senate Budget Committee