Answer: The process should include all spending and revenues. At present, the budget process focuses on “discretionary spending,” the money that congress must appropriate annually to keep federal agencies doing their assigned tasks. The budget process should be easy to understand and complete on time. The process now nostalgically called “regular order,” established in the Budget Reform Act of 1974, was always too elaborate to be workable and its multiple demanding deadlines were regularly missed. Budget decisions should have the active participation of congressional leadership and the president. It would help to make the budget resolution a law passed by Congress and signed by the president and to turn the budget committees into leadership committees.