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


                                    FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                    Expected at 12:00 Noon
                                    Tuesday, January 30, 1973


                       STATEMENT OF
ELMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
                        BEFORE THE
           SUBCOMMITTEE ON SEPARATION OF POWERS
           ~'   COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
    /

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:


     At your request I appear before you today to discuss

Presidential impoundments of appropriated funds and S. 373,

93d Congress, a bill designed to curb such impoundments.

This bill, which has been characterized as the impoundment

control bill, seeks: (1) to require the President to notify

the Congress whenever he impounds or terminates or authorizes

the impoundment or termination of a Federal program, and,

(2) to require the President to cease such impounding at the

expiration of sixty calendar days unless the Congress approves

the President's action by concurrent resolution.

     Executive impounding of funds has a number of factual and

legal facets and it may occur at various levels within the

Executive Branch. It is a problem that has reached significance

over the past thirty years and involves problems of statutory

and constitutional construction as well as policy considerations.


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