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090981 1 (1973-01-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduzu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ,HEARINGS LEGISLATION By JUDITH HATTER Assistant Chief, Legislative Digest Section, Office of the General Counsel Accounting and Auditing Act of 1973 The Comptroller General submitted to the Congress a measure to strengthen the role of GAO. The pro- posed legislation was introduced by Senator Sam Ervin for himself and Senators Ribicoff and Metcalf on June 21, 1973, and subsequently several companion bills were introduced in the House of Representatives. On two occasions the Comptroller General appeared before congressional committees to discuss the Accounting and Auditing Act of 1973. On June 21 he appeared before the House Select Committee on Committees to outline his views on the need for additional audit authority and on August 11 be. fore the Senate Subcommittee on Budgeting, Management and Expendi- tures of the Government Operations Committee to discuss title IV of the bill which concerns access to records. (Other participants: Messrs. Dem- bling, Hunter, Morse, Moore, Sperry, Grifflth, and Fitzgerald) During the months of May through August, representatives of GAO were frequently asked to testify before congressional committees and there follows a brief resum6 of these appear- ances. Government Procurement Commission Recommendations Richard W. Gutmann, director, Pro- curement and Systems Acquisition Di- vision, testified on May 17 before the Subcommittee on Government Pro- curement of the Senate Select Commit. tee on Small Business on the implications for the small business community of certain recommenda- tions of the Commission on Govern- ment Procurement. It was suggested that the Office of Federal Procurement Policy proposed to be established could serve as a conduit for communication between the Small Business Administration, the Committee, and the procuring agencies regarding small business contracting trends and required new initiatives. (Other participants: Messrs. Hall, Desmond, and Fitzgerald) The Comptroller General, who was a statutory member of the Government Procurement Commission, subse.

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