[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3380]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 279. Mr. COTTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in subtitle F of title X, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. ___. REPORTING REGARDING CANCELLED APPROPRIATIONS.

       (a) Assessments Required.--
       (1) Fiscal years 2009 through 2018.--Not later than 60 days 
     after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller 
     General of the United States shall submit to Congress a 
     report that assesses the amount of appropriations cancelled 
     under section 1552 of title 31, United States Code, during 
     each of fiscal years 2009 through 2018.
       (2) Fiscal year 2019.--Not later than 120 days after the 
     date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the 
     United States shall submit to Congress a report that assesses 
     the amount of appropriations cancelled under section 1552 of 
     title 31, United States Code, during fiscal year 2019.
       (b) Elements of Assessment.--Each assessment conducted 
     under subsection (a) shall address the following:
       (1) The amount of appropriations for each agency that were 
     cancelled during each fiscal year covered by the report, 
     including--
       (A) the name of each appropriation account from which 
     amounts were cancelled;
       (B) for each cancelled appropriation, the fiscal year for 
     which the appropriation was made, the period of availability 
     of the appropriation, and the fiscal year during which the 
     appropriation was cancelled;
       (C) for each fiscal year for which appropriations made to 
     the agency were cancelled, the percentage of the 
     appropriations made available to the agency for the fiscal 
     year that were cancelled; and
       (D) whether there was an adjustment made with respect to 
     the cancelled appropriation under section 251(b) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 
     U.S.C. 901(b)) or the cancelled appropriation was otherwise 
     excluded from being taken into account for purposes of the 
     discretionary spending limits (as defined in section 250 of 
     such Act (2 U.S.C. 900)).
       (2) The extent to which canceled appropriations different 
     significantly across agencies or over time.
       (3) The extent to which canceled appropriations are 
     correlated with obligation rates or the length of time.
       (4) The extent to which canceled appropriations are 
     correlated with the length of continuing resolutions in the 
     original year of the appropriation.
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