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PAD-80-36 1 (1979-11-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaazxt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: t, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OfF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGT'O D.C. N [!llllL~lIII I II tI l i l jil B-170612 November 13, 1979 110867 The Honorable Abraham A. Ribicoff Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs . . .. United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter is in response to your oint request, along with Senators Percy and JAv its, for my comments on Senate Amendment No. 517 to S. 3Jwhich you introduced on October 12. This amendment would require the Congress to set its agenda for selective comprehensive reexamination and reauthorization of programs as part of the first concurrent resolution on the budget in the second session of each Congress. The amendment also provides expedited procedures for considering sunset reauthorization bills. In commenting on the amendment, I would like to reiterate the point I made in my July 12, 1979, testimony before your committee. 'A basic requirement of oversight reform legisla- tion is a workable review process. On the one hand, the review process established by the legislation must be sufficiently disciplined to assure that information and analysis on programs is developed and presented to the Congress so that it can act responsibly on legislation to continue, modify, or terminate programs. On the other hand, the review process must be sufficientlyflexible to permit the Congress to focus its limited review resources, particularly the limited time of its Members, where review efforts are likely to be most productive. The amendment, by limiting the application of the sunset action forcing requirements in Section 101(c) of S. 2 to only those programs included in the sunset agenda, would add considerable flexibility. This additional flexi- bility should permit the Congress to focus its limited review resources, and also should reduce the possibility that the sunset process would create logjams of sunset reauthorization bills, which, in turn, could force the Congress to make pro forma reviews and reauthorizations of programs. ~ Q( Hf.PAD-80-36 .. / . .(972886) c/ /Kj

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