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B-193545 1 (1979-03-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjkd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .5 ,*I coMbiEflOLLER GENERAL OF THE:IJNITED STATES j A WASIlINGTOI, OX. 10345 B-193545 Ksrch 13, 1979 The Honorable George Iansen _\ nblt.o Lrvd1)g House of Representattives aoavt o 110 t 01 ,o Dear Mr, Hansen: This refers to your letter of February 1, 1979, requesting our consider- ation of the legality of a memorandumvhich was issued to Lower Colorado Region Supervisors of the Bureau of Reclamation by their Regional Director directing their support of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)7 We have received a ijurnber of congressional inquiries about the same memorandum over the past few mnonths and have studied the questions you raise very carefully. We were unable to find any statutory provision that would prohibit a Federal agency from urging its employees to pub- licly support the Administration's pro-ERA policy in this manner. Reclamation's memorandum states that the President had directed-- * *'the Head of each DepaLtment'pnd agency to (1) make the'most of public appearance'Opportunities to demonstrate the AdministrationI's connitment to the Equal Rights Amendment; and (2) include in public speechese where appropriate, language emphasizing the importance of ERA and assure' that similar language is included in the speeches made by officials of their Agency or Department, The Regional Director concluded his memorandum bt aiing each super- visor and managor in this Region to comply with the above directives regardless of personal preferences or political opinions. Since the early 19501h, various appropriation acts have contained general provisions prohibiting the Use of appropriated funds for pub- licity or propaganda. Section 607(a) of the Treasury, Postal Sonrvice and General Government Af-propriations-Act, 1979, Pub. L. No. 95-429, O,-'tober 10, 1978, 92 Stat, 1001, 1016, contains a prohibition applicable to iterior and all other agencies: stating: No part of any appropriation contained in this or ayother Act, or of the funds available for expenditure o399?0

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