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AFMD-81-35 1 (1981-03-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbts0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES s, i WASHINGTON D.C. 20548 114874 B-196862 MARCH 6,1981 ,/The Honorable Mark 0. Hatfield, United States Senate ,,The Honorable Ted Stevens, United States Senate The Honorable Charles McC. Mathias,-J4P-, United States Senate ,The Honorable Lowell P. Weicker, United States Senate ,AhJ-ie Honorable James A. McClure, United States Senate tXe Honorable PaulLaxalt, United States Senate The Honorabl Q(ake Garn, United ...es .. The Honorablelon H Schmitt, United States Senate Subject: Review of White House and Executive Agency Expenditures for S lected Travel, Entertainment, and Personnel Costs (AFMD-81-35) On September 22, 1980, you asked us to review selected expend- itures of the White House and various Federal agencies to determine if appropriated funds were used before the 1980 election to advance the political candidacy of the incumbent President. You also asked us to provide information on employees temporarily detailed to the White House from other agencies. In our October 20, 1980, interim report, we answered your question regarding funding used for certain entertainment expenses and provided partial responses to your other questions. This, our final report, addresses certain travel expen- ses of the President, Vice President, and other administration of- ficials; the procedures used to prevent misuse of appropriations; and the White House use of other agencies' personnel. The overriding question raised by your request was whether travel, speechmaking, and public appearances by senior-level offi- cials (including the President and the Vice President), and other personnel actions that may take place during a Presidential campaign and may directly or indirectly benefit the campaign, constitute an improper use of appropriated funds. This question has been raised by members of both major political parties on various occa- sions incident to a Presidential campaign. The question poses the very difficult problem of distinguishing between permissible offi- cial activities for which appropriated funds are available and other activities that are similar in nature but are for purely political or partisan purposes. The problem becomes particularly troublesome when those activities tend to increase during the late stages of a campaign. As to official activities, we have long held that the President and his Cabinet and other subordinates have a duty to inform the public about Government policies, and (905029)

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