Excerpt from How Did We Get Here From There: Reform of the Federal Budget Process: Hearings Before the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session; Hearings Held in Washington July 11, 17, and August 1, 1996 It is inevitable that, given the nature of today's budget challenge, there will be frustration. It is important, however, to t to separate frustration with process from frustration over olic To bring the deficit down requires hard decisions about what government wil an will not do. A process may facilitate the debate, but it cannot make the decision. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.