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          UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                 WASHINGTON, D.Q. 20548

                                         FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                         EXPECTED AT 10:00 A.M.
                                         WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1973


                        STATEMENT OF
            ELMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL
                     OF THE UNITED STATES
                         BEFORE THE
           JOINT STUDY COMMITTEE ON BUDGET CONTROL
                        MARCH 7, 1973


     I appreciate this opportunity to discuss our thoughts

on improving congressional control over the Federal budget.

     We have reviewed the interim report of February 7,

1973, of the Joint Study Committee on Budget Control and

we agree that if the Congress can devise workable procedures

along the lines of the Committee's 10 recommendations, con-

gressional control over the Federal budget will be greatly

strengthened.

     As you well recognize, however, devising effective and

acceptable new procedures will not be easy. My purpose

here today is to provide our views on the preliminary report,

to describe some of our operations that are directly pertin-

ent to congressional budgetary control, and to suggest other

ways in which we may improve our assistance.

     The interim report has been of particular interest to

me because of my long service in the Bureau of the Budget

where we faced many of the same problem,    whichthe Com-

mittee report has addressed itself.                _

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