[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 160 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 160

     Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require 
  authorizing committees to hold annual hearings on GAO investigative 
   reports on the identification, consolidation, and elimination of 
                    duplicative Government programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 15, 2013

   Mr. Gardner (for himself, Mr. Peters of Michigan, Mr. Flores, Mr. 
 Renacci, Mr. Hanna, Mr. Carney, Mr. Coffman, Mr. Barber, Mr. Delaney, 
   Mr. Himes, Mr. Polis, Mrs. Hartzler, Mr. Terry, Mr. Lankford, Mr. 
    Gerlach, Mr. Benishek, Mr. Yoder, and Mr. Lance) submitted the 
   following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
     Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require 
  authorizing committees to hold annual hearings on GAO investigative 
   reports on the identification, consolidation, and elimination of 
                    duplicative Government programs.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This resolution may be cited as the ``Congressional Oversight to 
Start Taxpayer Savings Resolution'' or the ``COST Savings Resolution''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING COMMITTEE HEARINGS ON GAO INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS.

    Clause 2 of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives is 
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(f) Within 90 calendar days after the Comptroller General 
transmits each annual report to Congress identifying programs, 
agencies, offices, and initiatives with duplicative goals and 
activities within the Government pursuant to section 21 of the joint 
resolution of February 12, 2010, increasing the statutory limit on the 
public debt (Public Law 111-139), each standing committee (except the 
Committee on Appropriations) with jurisdiction over any such program or 
agency covered by that report shall conduct hearings on the 
recommendations for consolidation and elimination of such program or 
agency.''.
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