S. HRG. 99-1078

POSSIBLE LEGISLATIVE RESPONSES TO BOWSHER v. SYNAR

HEARING

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-NINTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

JULY 23, 1986

Printed for the use of the
Committee on Governmental Affairs

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1987

COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS

TED STEVENS, Alaska

WILLIAM V. ROTH, JR., Delaware, Chairman

CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland
WILLIAM S. COHEN, Maine

DAVE DURENBERGER, Minnesota
WARREN B. RUDMAN, New Hampshire
THAD COCHRAN, Mississippi

THOMAS F. EAGLETON, Missouri
LAWTON CHILES, Florida
SAM NUNN, Georgia

JOHN GLENN, Ohio

CARL LEVIN, Michigan

ALBERT GORE, JR., Tennessee

FRANKLIN G. POLK, Chief Counsel and Staff Director
ROBERT S. GILMOUR, Professional Staff Member
MARGARET P. CRENSHAW, Minority Staff Director
TERRY JOLLY, Chief Clerk

(II)

Hon. Pete V. Domenici, U.S. Senator from the State of New Mexico.
Hon. Phil Gramm, U.S. Senator from the State of Texas....
Hon. Ernest F. Hollings, U.S. Senator from the State of South Carolina
Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States, accompanied
by Milton J. Socolar, special assistant to the Comptroller General.
Elmer B. Staats, former Comptroller General of the United States....
James C. Miller III, Director of the Office of Management and Budget..
Ernest Gellhorn, managing partner, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington,
DC, and former dean, Case Western Reserve Law School, Cleveland, OH,
and Prof. Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL ...

Bowsher, Charles A.:
Testimony

Prepared statement

Domenici, Hon. Pete V.:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Gellhorn, Ernest:

Testimony

ALPHABETICAL List of WITNESSES

Prepared statement with an attachment.

Gramm, Hon. Phil: Testimony

Hollings, Hon. Ernest F.: Testimony.

Miller, James C., III:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Socolar, Milton J.: Testimony

Staats, Emer B.:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Sunstein, Cass R.:

Testimony

Prepared statement

IV

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD

Comptroller General authorities potentially affected by Bowsher vs. Synar
Letter to Senator Levin from James C. Miller III, Director, OMB, Aug. 11, 1986.
Letter to Chairman Roth from Rudolph G. Penner, Director, Congressional
Budget Office, Aug. 21, 1986.

Prepared statements of witnesses.

Gramm-Rudman II Option with attachments.

Representative Mike Synar, et al., plaintiffs v. United States of America, defendant; National Treasury Employees Union, plaintiff v. United States of America, defendant; U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia..... Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States v. Synar, Member of Congress, et al.; Supreme Court of the United States......

Memorandum to Chuck Konigsberg, Senate Budget Committee, from Congressional Research Service, Amerian Law Division, dated June 3, 1986....

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