The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (P.L.79-601) reorganized congressional committees through consolidating and reducing their number and increasing resources for the remaining committees. It marked a serious attempt at improving the federal budget by creating a super-committee, the Joint Committee on the Legislative Budget, with members from the Appropriations, Ways and Means, and Finance Committees to meet and produce a budget at the beginning of each congressional session. Agreement on a budget between the chambers was not reached in 1947, was reached but not adhered to in 1948, and the process was abandoned after agreement was not reached in 1949.
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