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OGC-93-8 1 (1993-07-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabsqt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CComptroler General of the Unted States Washngon, D.C. 20648 B-250728.8 July 19, 1993 To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives On June 4, 1993, the President submitted to the Congress the sixth special impoundment message for fiscal year 1993. This message proposed six rescissions of budget authority. Under the Impoundment Control Act, the President must submit a special message to both Houses of Congress when he determines that all or part of any budget authority is not required to carry out program objectives. 2 U.S.C. § 683. The President must specify, among other things, the amounts of budget authority proposed for rescission, the reasons in support of the proposed rescission, and all the facts and circumstances relating to the rescission. Id. The President must also deliver a copy of each special message to the Comptroller General. 2 U.S.C. § 685(b). In order to assist the Congress in the exercise of its functions, the Impoundment Control Act directs the Comptroller General to review each message and to report the facts surrounding the proposed rescission. Id. Our information indicates that the justifications submitted by the President for each of his proposed rescissions are accurate. We have also been informally advised that the amounts proposed for rescission are being withheld pending Congressional action. However, for all of the rescissions proposed by the President in the sixth special message, we have been unable to verify this information because neither the agencies involved nor OMB could provide any documentation showing amounts of budget authority available or amounts being withheld. GAO/OGC-93-8 &1/s7

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