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B-306473 1 (2005-11-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptarbh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i G A 0 Comptroller General A Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 B-306473 November 4, 2005 The Honorable Thad Cochran Chairman, Committee on Appropriations United States Senate The Honorable Robert C. Byrd Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Subject: Updated Rescission Statistics, FTscal Years 1974-2005 This responds to your letter requesting that we transmit to Congress an updated package of our statistical data concerning rescissions proposed and enacted since the passage of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. In response to your letter, we have updated our statistics regarding proposed and enacted rescissions through fiscal year 2005. We present our statistics in the two enclosed sets of tables, Enclosures 1 and 2. Enclosure 1 shows by fiscal year from 1974 to the present: (a) the aggregate number and amounts of rescissions proposed by the President, (b) the aggregate number and amount of those proposals enacted by Congress, (c) the aggregate number and amount of rescissions initiated by Congress, and (d) the total number of rescissions enacted and the total amount of budget authority rescinded by Congress, with totals for each category. Enclosure 2 shows by fiscal year from 1974 to the present, by presidential administration, the aggregate number and amount of rescissions proposed and enacted. The tables also display the number and amount of congressional rescissions by administration with totals for each category. Both tables include all rescissions enacted through September 30, 2005. To compile our statistics, we used the same methodology as we have for earlier data. We analyze appropriations, supplemental appropriations, and other acts of Congress enacted in each fiscal year in order to identify rescissions, which are any legislative provisions that eliminate previously enacted and currently available budget authority. 'We provide an abbreviated methodology in Enclosure 3. For an exhaustive review of the background and methodology of this project, see the scope and methodology of our original presentation of these statistics, B-246096.8, Apr. 30, 1992.

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