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           United States General Accounting Office
                   Washington, D.C. 20548

                                     FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                     Expected at 10:00 a.m.
                                     January 29, 1981

                        Statement of

                        Elmer B. Staats

          Comtroller General of the United States

                         before the

                 Committee on Appropriations
                                                        114340
                         U.S. Senate

                             on

               [Lck of Controllability in

                     The Federal Budge9

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee

     I am very pleased to appear before you today. I commend

the committee for addressing a most important issue--an issue

that affects every citizen and one that is putting strains on

the existing budget procedures--the extraordinary growth in

the so-called uncontrollable portion of the Federal budget.

     I have been greatly encouraged by the scope and depth of

the Congress' current concern about this issue.

Nature of the controllability oroblem

     I would like to start by emphasizing that I have

consistently held that when viewed over a long enough period

of time there are few uncontrollable programs in the Federal

budget. The length of time necessary to make the necessary

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