Category: Public Policy   What is the President’s budget?   Why
does the President submit a budget to Congress?    President
Obama turned in his budget late—again. This will be Obama’s
fifth late budget submission in five years, making him the first
President to present three consecutive late budgets. According
to the House Budget Committee, “All presidents from Harding to
Reagan’s first term met the statutory budget submission deadline
in every year.” Reagan and Clinton both missed their deadlines
once in eight years.  What is the function of the President’s
budget request?  The President’s annual budget request serves
three functions:  truthiness_largeThe Supreme Courts is hearing
a case that involves a First Amendment challenge to an Ohio law
that makes it a crime to “disseminate a false statement
concerning a candidate, either knowing the same to be false or
with reckless disregard of whether it was false.”  During the
2010 elections, the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life advocacy
group, published ads in