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B-129650 1 (1987-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmxx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Wshington, D.C. 20548 Decision Department of Treasury - Disposition of Matterof: Congressional Travel Account Balance File: B-129650 Date: December h, 1987 DIGEST Balancing of congressional travel clearing account on the books of the Department of the Treasury Financial Management Service where clearing account was not reimbursed with funds appropriated to the Congress for that purpose by charging permanent appropriation enacted after travel expenses were incurred is authorized by 2 U.S.C. S 102a, which provides that unpaid obligations which are more than 2 fiscal years old and which are chargeable to withdrawn unexpended balances of congressional accounts are to be liquidated with current appropriations for the same purpose. DECISIOI The Director of the Finance Division, Financial Management Service, Department of the Treasury (Service) has requested this Office to grant it write-off authority for some $339,821.80 in account 20A1510, Congressional Travel. The amount represents travel expenses incurred for congres- sional travel in foreign countries between May 1977 and September 1978, which have been on the Service's books since that time. As explained below, we conclude that the amount in question may be charged to the permanent indefinite appropriation for congressional foreign travel established under 22 U.S.C. S 1754(b). In May 1977, we issued a decision (B-129650, May 11, 1977) to the Department of the Treasury which held that there was no authority for the then current practice of financing congressional foreign travel expenses by using dollars from Treasury miscellaneous receipts or from the Commodity Credit Corporation revolving fund to purchase foreign currencies. As a result of that decision, the Service terminated the unauthorized practice and established new procedures for funding congressional foreign travel expenses, effective as pf May 27, 1977. Under the new procedures, congressional travel costs were to be charged initially to a clearing account on the books of the Service (20A1510). Costs were then subsequently to be oqL) Q

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