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FGMSD-81-13 1 (1980-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbfw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -.--1! IN~r O > P n ieral .. . .. c approva( COMPTROLLER GENERAL Of THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20611 B-196862 October 20, 1980 RELEASED The Honorable Tom Steed Chairman, Subcommittee on Treasury- Postal Service-General Government Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives 113824 Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Lieview of the Propriety of White House and Executive Agency Expenditures for Selected Travel, Entertainment and Personnel Cos (FGMSD-81-13) This is our interim report in response to your letter of October 16, 1980, requesting a report on our review of selected expenditures of the White House and other Federal agencies to determine if appropriated funds are being used improperly to advance the political candidacy of the incumbent President. Our review in response to a letter of September 22, 1980 from 11 members of the United States Senate is concentrating on (1) the policies and procedures for handling political travel and entertainment by White House and Federal agency officials, and (2) whether specific events were improperly charged to appropriated funds. The above items, as well as the questions they raised on detailing personnel from Federal agencies to the White House, will be covered in more detail in our final report. POLITICAL AND OFFICIAL TRAVEL BY THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT We evaluated the procedures used for allocating the cost of political travel by the President and Vice President and specifically referred to allocation procedures in a letter dated September 13, 1977, from Counsel to the President Lipshutz to the Federal Election Commission. Starting prior to the primary and general election campaign periods, the White House counsel issued a series of written guidelinesosimilar to those set forth in the above letter. In general, the guidelines provide that: 1) The costs of campaign-related or other political travel by Administration officials may not be paid from appropriated funds nor may government credit be used for this purpose. Such costs (905029) 5A1-1-553(

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