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B-316655 1 (2008-10-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaqd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 B-316655 October 29, 2008 The Honorable Howard L. Berman Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives The Honorable Robert Menendez Chairman, Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Economic Affairs, and International Environmental Protection Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate The Honorable Daniel K. Akaka Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate Subject: Delegation of Authorities to the Director of Foreign Assistance This opinion responds to your letter of September 10, 2007, in which you asked us, as part of a larger overall review of the Office of the Director of Foreign Assistance's activities, to review the legality of the delegation of authorities of the Secretary of State and the President to the Director of Foreign Assistance (DFA). The creation of the DFA represented a significant structural change to the organization of U.S. foreign assistance. As a result, some Members of Congress questioned the propriety of the delegation of certain functions Congress had previously conferred by statute upon the President and the Secretary to the DFA, a position that does not receive Senate confirmation. Our practice when rendering legal opinions includes obtaining the views of the relevant agency to establish a factual record and to elicit the agency's legal position 'Nomination of Ambassador Randall Tobias: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, 109th Congress, 2nd Session (2006) (questions for the record submitted to Ambassador Randall Tobias by Senator Joseph Biden). 2id.

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