Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations

93D CONGRESS 1ST SESSION

S. 1030

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

FEBRUARY 27, 1973

Mr. HUMPHREY introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Government Operations

A BILL

To establish a Congressional Office of Budget Analysis and Program Evaluation; to provide participation by State and local officials and the general public in the departmental budgetmaking process; to provide investigations by the Comptroller General of impoundment reports; to provide legislative oversight and veto of impoundments; and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa

tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 That this Act may be cited as the "Fiscal and Budgetary 4 Reform Act of 1973".

TITLE I-CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE OF BUDGET

ANALYSIS AND PROGRAM EVALUATION

PART A-ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE AND ESTABLISH

MENT OF BUDGET CEILING

SEC. 101. (a) There is hereby established for the Con6 gress an Office of Budget Analysis and Program Evaluation 7 (hereafter in this title referred to as the "Office") which shall be subject to supervision and control by the Joint Economic Committee (hereafter in this title referred to as the "Joint

Committee"). The Office shall have four sections as follows: 11 (1) Informational Section, (2) Analytic Section, (3) Pro12 gram Evaluation Section, and (4) Special Studies Section. (b) The Joint Committee is authorized to appoint a Technical Director of the Office who shall serve as the head

15 of the staff of the Office, subject to the general supervision of the Executive Director, in accordance with the purposes 17 of the Employment Act of 1946. The Technical Director shall supervise the staff of the Office and shall perform such duties as the Joint Committee or the Executive Director may 20 prescribe. The Technical Director shall be appointed without 21 regard to political affiliation and solely on the basis of his fitness to perform his duties. He shall receive compensation as may be prescribed from time to time by the Joint Committee, but not in excess of the highest rate of basic pay, as in effect from time to time, of grade 18 of the General

1 Schedule of section 5332 (a) of title 5, United States Code. 2 (c) The Technical Director is authorized, with the ap

3 proval of the Joint Committee and the Executive Director,

to appoint such other personnel as may be necessary to carry 5 out the duties and functions of the Office and to fix their 6 compensation at rates not in excess of the highest rate of 7 basic pay, as in effect from time to time, of grade 16 of the 8 General Schedule of section 5332 (a) of title 5, United 9 States Code. All such personnel shall be appointed without 10 regard to political affiliation and solely on the basis of their fitness to perform their duties.

SEC. 102. (a) Prior to the submission of the Budget of 13 the United States Government for each fiscal year, the Joint 14 Committee staff, including the Office, shall make a thorough 15 study of the Nation's economic conditions, and the factors 16 having a bearing thereon, including business investment, con17 sumer spending, international trade, the availability of credit, 18 and the state of Federal expenditures and revenues. Based 19 upon such study, and developing conclusions about the pru20 dent growth of Federal budget outlays, obligations and revenues, taking into consideration the objectives of the Em22 ployment Act of 1946, the Executive Director of the Joint 23 Committee shall, two days prior to receipt of the United 24 States budget and the President's Economic Report, make a

(1) an estimate of the revenues that will be received by the Federal Government during the forthcoming fiscal year;

(2) a recommendation of the amount, if any, by which Federal outlays should exceed revenues, or rev

enues should exceed outlays, in order to promote the

general welfare and to provide maximum employment, production, and purchasing power.

(b) Upon receipt of the report submitted under subsection (a), and receipt of the Budget of the United States 11 Government, the Joint Committee will within ten days hold 12 hearings to determine the appropriate Federal fiscal policy as expressed in section (a) (2), and then shall make a com14 mittee report of this determination to all committees of the 15 Senate and House of Representatives and all joint commit16 tees of the Congress. Such report shall include, but not be 17 limited to

(1) a proposed limit on the total amount of new obligational authority, and a proposed limit on the

20 amount of new obligational authority (for each func

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tional category), which should be enacted for the fiscal

year,

(2) a proposed limit on the total amount of outlays, and a proposed limit on the amount of outlays for each

functional category, which should be made during the

fiscal year.

1 (c) Upon request of any committee of the Senate or 2 House of Representatives, or any joint committee of the Con3 gress, the Office shall furnish additional information with 4 respect to the report transmitted pursuant to subsection (b) 5 relating to matters within the jurisdiction of that committee or joint committee.

(d) After receiving and giving consideration to the re8 port of the Joint Economic Committee, the Committees on 9 Appropriations of each House of Congress shall, not later 10 than fifteen days after receiving such recommendations, re11 port to its House a bill establishing the total amount of out12 lays to be made during the fiscal year by the United States 13 Government.

14 (e) (1) A bill reported under subsection (d) of this 15 section shall be highly privileged in each House. It shall be 16 in order at any time after the third day following the day on 17 which such a bill is reported to move to proceed to its con18 sideration (even though a previous motion to the same effect 19 has been disagreed to). Such a motion shall be highly 20 privileged and shall not be debatable. An amendment to the 21 motion shall not be in order, and it shall not be in order to

move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed

to or disagreed to.

(2) Debate on such bill, and all amendments thereto,

25 shall be limited to not more than ten hours, which shall be

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