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Finding Out How Programs Are Working: Suggestions for
Congressional Oversight. PAD-78-3; B-161740. Ncvember 22, 1977.
29 pp. + appendix (17 pp.) .
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issaue Area: Program Evaluation Systems (2600); Program
Evaluation Systems: Agency Evaluation (2601);Program
Evaluation Systems: Information for Congress and the Public
(2603).
Contact: Program Analysis Div.
Budget Function: General Government: Legislative Functions
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Congressional Relevance: Congress.
Authority: S. Res. 307 (94th Cong.).
To enhance the congressionaJ oversight process,
committees of Congress, when reporting major authorizing
legislation, should include an oversight requirements section in
the legislation. The oversight requirements should specify
congressional oversight issues and questions and provide for
feeaback ot program performance information and othe- evaluation
data on some kind of reasonable timetable in order to answer
specified cvegight queptions. Findings/Conclusions: The
oversight procedure, when applied by the Congress, would
establish a disciplined process for agencies to follow in
monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on their programs in order
to answer congressional oversight guestions. The oversiqht
requirements in the authorizing legislation wiuld spell out thc
Congress' intent to engage in oversight of the 41.gislation and
indicate, for any authorized program: what the Congress expects
the program to accomplish, what general oversight questions the
Congress expects the agency to answer as the program is
implemented, and what committee or committees are responsible
for oversight and assuring that the executive branch complies
with congressional oversight requirements. In accordance with
the applicable oversight requirements, the responsible executive
branch agency would report to the Congress or designated
committees its progress in implementing the program, inciuding
periodic reports on progress in developing, designing,
establishing, and executing the prcgrams. The oversight
procedure would also require agencies to report the measures
they intend to take im evaluating the program as well as the
results of completed evaluation studies. (Author/SC)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaawhl0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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