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FGMSD-81-11 1 (1980-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbfz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTRICTED Not r - Ac Vntn. Ch. AI ! n pp b y i h$kk .A; i COMIPTIROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WAIINTON. D.C. AOms OCTOBER 20, 1980 B-196-862 The Honorable The Honorable The Honorable The Honorable The Honorable The Honorable The Honorable The Honorable The Honorable The Honorable The Honorable Subject: RELEASED Milton R. Young, United States Senate Mark 0. Hatfield, United States Senate Ted Stevens, United States Senate Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., United States Senate Richard S. Schweiker, United States Senate Henry L. Bellmon, United States Senate Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., United States Senate James A. McClure, United States Senate Paul Laxalt, United States Senate Jack Garn, United States Senate Harrison H. Schmitt, United States Senate Jview of the Propriety of White House and Executive Agency Expenditures for Selected Travel, Entertainment and Personnel Cost (FGMSD-81-11) This is our interim report in response to your letter of September 22, 1980, requesting that we review 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 is concentrating on (1) the questions raised in your letter as they apply to specific travel and entertain- ment and (2) other events as discussed with members of your staffs during meetings on-October 2 and 6, 1980. The above items, as well as the questions you 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 You asked us to evaluate the procedures used for allo- cating 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 guidelines similar 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 11387 5-15?(905029)

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