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B-198507 1 (1980-05-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjep0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I owI , 89~'1 10*. TED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C, 20548 66-n? $1W~CW~ t.jh L.v:lrtJJ& d'hrW ~r4t I, 14 REPLY AKOf TO: B-198507 OFFICE OF GENlERAL COUNSEL ( I 'I. try 12, 1980 ft pA Mr. W. Wasserstein, Director Division of Governmvent Accounts and Reports Bureau of Government Financial Operations Department of the Treasury Dear Mr. Wasserstein; You havc requested my views on whethor the first Continuing Resolution for fiscal year 1980, Public Law 96-86, October 12, 1979, 93 Stat, 656, appropriated $350,000 for the Senate Office of Legal Counsel., and thus whether a request for a warrant in that amount by the Financial Clerk of the Senate should be honored. Afttar reviewing the record, I am satisfied that the Congress intended to appropriate the amount in qijestion in the Continuing Resolution. Should the Department of the Treaiury prepare an appropriation warrant in that amount, I will recommend that the General Accounting Ofilce countersign the warrant under the provisons of 31 U.S.C. § 76. Section 101(c) of the Continuing Resolution appropriate.: * * * such' amounts as may be necessary for continuing projects or activities for which disbursnments are made by the Secretary of the Senate, * * * to the extent and in the manner which would ba provided for in the budget estimates, as amended, for fiscal year 1980. The fiscal year 1980 appropriation requests for the Legislative Branch contained in the annual budget did not contain a request for an appropriation for the Office of the Senate Legal Counsel., nor was such a request contained in any amendment to the budget submitted to the Congress by the President prior to October 12, 1979, the date the Continuing Resolution becurme law. lowever, on September 12, 1979, a month prior to the enactment of the Continuing Reuolution, the Financial Clerk of the United States Senate for- warded to the Director of the Office of Managemant and Budget (OMB) budget amendments totalling $474,000. These amendments included an additional $124,000 for the Office of Sergeant ae Arms and Doorkeeper, and $350,000 . ,e I ~' a r1 . '.4 * ( - I

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