If you average 70 steps per minute, you are walking 2 miles per hour (mph), 105 steps per minute brings you up to an average pace of 3 mph. Increase your steps to 152 per minute and you are walking about 4 mph or covering one mile every 15 minutes (15 x 4 = 60 minutes or one hour). Walk very briskly, clocking 242 steps in one minute and you are walking at a speed of about 5 mph.
The original purpose of the reconciliation process as enacted in the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was to allow Congress at the end of a fiscal year to expeditiously enact legislation that would make minor adjustments to both spending and revenue levels.
The federal budget is divided into approximately 20 categories known as budget functions. These functions include all spending for a given topic, regardless of the federal agency that oversees the individual federal program.Both the President's budget, submitted annually, and Congress' budget resolution, passed annually, comprise these approximately 20 functions.hese functions include all spending for a given topic, regardless of the federal agency that oversees the individual federal program. Both the President's budget, submitted annually, and Congress' budget resolution, passed annually, comprise these approximately 20 functions.