Congressional Oversight to Start Taxpayer Savings Resolution
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What it doesSummary introduced in senate (Mar 17, 2015)
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 Comptroller General 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 Comptroller General 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.
What just happenedMar 17, 2015
Referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1588)
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in SenateMar 17, 2015
- Mar 17, 2015IntroReferral
Referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1588)
Rules and Administration Committee - Mar 17, 2015IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate