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6. responsible for originating all revenue bills
8. program added to social security to provide hospital and physician coverage to the elderly
9. result from policies that make some group automatically eligible for benefits
12. permits congress to levy an income tax
16. money spent by the government in any one year
19. responsible for providing analyses of budget proposals
20. total amount spent is not by congressional appropriation, but rather by rules of eligibility
21. establishes a discretionary government program or an entitlement
22. the portion of money individuals are required to pay to the government from the money they earned

1. designed to reform the budgeting process
2. passed to provide a minimal level of sustenance to older americans
3. bill passed annually to fund an authorized program
4. allows agencies to spend at the previous year's level
5. money received by the government in any given year
7. responsible for writing the tax code
10. the best predictor of this year's budget is last year's budget plus a little bit more
11. bill setting limits on expenditures based on revenue projections
13. when government spends more money than it receives in taxes in the fiscal year
14. revenue losses due to special exemptions, exclusions, and deductions
15. all the money borrowed by the government over the years that is still outstanding
17. usually occurs toward the end of the budgetary process
18. policy document that allocates taxes and expenditures