It cut welfare subsidies and labor regulations. It restructured agriculture subsidies through the Freedom to Farm Act. But to dismiss Congressional procedure as sluggish inaction and ignore the Constitutional origins of gridlock is to eschew the sheer complex intricacies and deliberateness of the budget process. These bills each proceed slowly through Congress in different forms. Some provisions of a particular appropriations bill are approved for inclusion with the bill and then are voted on again as part of the final text.
Some appropriations bills are subject to only one vote on the final version.
Before the bill ever gets to the floor for a vote in either body, hundreds of amendments are proposed, added, amended, resubmitted, voted on, added to the bill, changed again, voted on again in the new form, taken out of the bill, re-amended, voted on again in block, and so on. Some committees encourage block amendment votes to quicken the process, but the process still moves very slowly. The appropriations bills including the amendments approved by the House Budget Committee and the Senate Finance Committee are then presented for votes in the full House and Senate. The House has only one vote on the full budget which includes all the appropriations bills already approved in separate form. The Senate must vote to attach all the amendments generated in the Finance Committee.