A resolution requiring authorizing committees to hold annual hearings on Government Accountability Office investigative reports on the identification, consolidation, and elimination of duplicative Government programs.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
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Congressional Oversight to Start Taxpayer Savings Resolution or the COST Savings Resolution Requires each standing committee of the Senate (except the Committee on Appropriations) with jurisdiction, after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports annually to Congress on federal programs, agencies, offices, and initiatives with duplicative goals and activities, to conduct hearings on the report's recommendations for consolidation and elimination of the program, agency, office, or initiative. Requires each standing committee of the Senate (except the Committee on Appropriations) with jurisdiction over any agency or program area on a High Risk List published by the GAO to conduct hearings on the vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement, or need for transformation, of the agency or program area. Authorizes committees to hold joint hearings for any program, agency, office, initiative, or program area over which more than one standing committee has jurisdiction.
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Introduced in Senate
Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2430)
Introduced in Senate
Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2430)
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Congressional committeesCongressional oversightExecutive agency funding and structureGovernment studies and investigationsLegislative rules and procedureSenate
A resolution requiring authorizing committees to hold annual hearings on Government Accountability Office investigative reports on the identification, consolidation, and elimination of duplicative Government programs.
USA115th CongressSRES-119| Senate
| Updated: 4/6/2017
Congressional Oversight to Start Taxpayer Savings Resolution or the COST Savings Resolution Requires each standing committee of the Senate (except the Committee on Appropriations) with jurisdiction, after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports annually to Congress on federal programs, agencies, offices, and initiatives with duplicative goals and activities, to conduct hearings on the report's recommendations for consolidation and elimination of the program, agency, office, or initiative. Requires each standing committee of the Senate (except the Committee on Appropriations) with jurisdiction over any agency or program area on a High Risk List published by the GAO to conduct hearings on the vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement, or need for transformation, of the agency or program area. Authorizes committees to hold joint hearings for any program, agency, office, initiative, or program area over which more than one standing committee has jurisdiction.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Congress
Introduced
In Committee
On Floor
Passed Chamber
Enacted
Congressional committeesCongressional oversightExecutive agency funding and structureGovernment studies and investigationsLegislative rules and procedureSenate