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.
What a Budget Does. As a personal financial planning tool, a written, monthly budget allows you to plan for how you will spend and/or save your money each month and also to keep track of your spending patterns.