SENATOR PROXMIRE: Now, you are required somehow to submit your budget to the Office of Management and Budget, and yet you are considered to be an independent agency. How do you reconcile that contradition? There is no greater power than the power to determine the budget of an agency, to destroy it, and to enfeeble it by simply denying it the resources it needs. How can you be independent in any real sense of the executive branch if the Office of Management and Budget determines your budget? (U.S. Congress, 1974: 1050).
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