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106261 1 (1978-06-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadyaa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUBRNT RESURE 06261 - [B16466691 Oversight Reform Proposals. June 8. 1978. 17 pF. * enclosure (1 pp.). Testimony before the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration; by Harry S. Havens, Lirector, Program Analysis Div. Contact: Program Analysis Div. Congressional Relevance: Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. Authority: S. 2 (95th Cong.). Deficiencies in the current congressicnal oversight process include incomplete coverage of the reauthorization process, inadequate attention to broad policy subjects, incomplete review coverage of Federal rcgrams and activities, and lack of clarity and specificity in statemlnts of the objectives of programs and activities. The key alement tc oversight reform is congressional commitment to better oversight and the establishment of a disciplined process for the revieu and study of Federal programs in the context of broad policy subjects. The proposed bill, S.2, would establish a mandatory reauthorizing process for Federal prcgzans, but it would exempt some specific types of programs, including the major federal income security and health financing programs and tax expenditures. The proposed legislaticn wculd schedule reauthorization and related reviews of a 6-year cycle in accordance with a timetable written into law; it would force action to reauchorize programs, grouped by budget subfunction, by specified dates and place a ban on future funding fcr programs not reauthorized by specified dates. the period of the authorization of new budget authority would be limited to 6 years. S.2 would base the reauthorization Frocess on a list of all activities of the Federal Government categcrized by budget subfunction, establish a statutory schedule by kudget subfunction, provide that programs in the same budget subfunction be acted upon in tne same Congress, and require that an inventory of programs be develoFed and maintained by the Congressional Budget Office. (RES)

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