GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
Amendments
Federal claims: provide for an equitable waiver in compromise and collection (H.R. 1890), 36938 [17DE]
Legislative branch: making appropriations (H.R. 2942), 21717, 21722, 21756 [31JY], 29353 [29OC]
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act: enact (H.R. 2942), 19649, 19659, 19663 [18JY]
Analyses
Analysis of the GAO Report on U.S. Assistance to Haiti: Jon Crystal, 22023 [31JY]
Appointments
Conferees: H.R. 2942, legislative branch appropriations, 26669 [8OC]
———H.R. 2942, Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 22490 [1AU]
Articles and editorials
Accounting Office May Review U.S. Contracts, Judge Rules, 7604 [4AP]
``Corporate Welfare'' Is Their Target, 5588 [19MR]
``Corporate Welfare'' Unfair to All of Us, 5589 [19MR]
Court Rules Army Corps of Engineers Broke Law, 7605 [4AP]
Expensive Revenge, 2608 [19FE]
GAO Rebukes Grace Panel Claims on Fed Pensions, 4182 [28FE]
Bills and resolutions
Defense Contract Audit Agency: transfer the functions to GAO (see H.R. 3784)
El Salvador: investigation and report on conditions of certain displaced persons (see S. 377; H.R. 822)
Federal Advisory Council: audit (see H.R. 70)
———authorize audit (see S. 1075)
Federal Open Market Committee: audit (see H.R. 70)
———authorize audit (see S. 1075)
FRS: audit (see H.R. 70)
———authorize audit of Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve banks (see S. 1075)
Internal revenue laws: oversight (see H.R. 832)
Communications from
Annual report: transmittal, 5814 (EC699) [20MR], 5985 (EC836) [21MR]
Budget authority: report, 12134 (EC1135) [15MY]
Comptrollers General Retirement System: report, 22896 (EC1891) [4SE]
Coordination of Federal Drug Interdiction Efforts: report, 20476 (EC1549) [25JY]
Eighth Farm Credit District Employee Benefit Trust: report, 24287 (EC2021) [19SE]
Eximbank's financial statements: report, 13888 (EC1396) [3JN]
FDIC's financial statements: report, 13888 (EC1394) [3JN]
Foreign Industrial Targeting-U.S. Trade Law Remedies: report, 14057 (EC1415) [4JN]
Great Plains coal gasification project: report, 13888 (EC1397) [3JN]
Inter-American Foundation's financial statements: report, 13888 (EC1392) [3JN]
Majority Printing Clerk, House of Representatives: report on financial statements, 7802 (EC1025) [15AP]
Merit Systems Protection Board: report, 9103 (EC1105) [23AP]
Minority Printing Clerk, House of Representatives: report on financial statements, 7802 (EC1024) [15AP]
National Consumer Cooperative Bank's financial statements: report, 13888 (EC1393) [3JN]
National Credit Union Administration: report, 26481 (EC2109) [7OC]
National Credit Union Administration's financial statements: report, 13888 (EC1395) [3JN]
OPM: report, 9103 (EC1105) [23AP]
Panama Canal Commission: financial report, 4450 (EC520) [5MR]
———report on financial statement, 9103 (EC1106) [23AP]
Panama Canal Commission fund: certification of Dept. of Defense's estimate of revenue deposited, 3568 (EC619) [26FE]
Report list: transmittal, 8471 (EC1062) [18AP]
Reports: list, 440 (EC113) [3JA], 19866 (EC1719) [22JY], 22896 (EC1880) [4SE], 27017 (EC2119) [9OC]
Reports issued: transmittal, 16580 (EC1559) [20JN]
Senate Building Beauty Shop Financial Statements: report, 22896 (EC1881) [4SE]
Status of budget authority: report, 12007 (EC1286) [15MY], 12621 (EC1147) [20MY]
Status of rescission for which Congress did not pass a rescission bill: report, 23042 (EC1594) [9SE]
Synthetic Fuels Corp. financial statements: report, 13888 (EC1398) [3JN]
Tax matters: report, 23043 (EC1646) [9SE]
TVA financial statements: report, 14057 (EC1414) [4JN]
USIA: deferral of budget authority, 22894 (EC1821) [4SE]
Weapon system production problems: report, 14057 (EC1416) [4JN]
Decisions
Tehran American School reimbursement claim, 267 [3JA]
Documents
Example of GAO Hotline Allegations, 1079 [24JA]
Letters
Chemical warfare capabilities, 29624 [30OC]
Constitutionality of the procurement statute of the Competition in Contracting Act: Shelton J. Fowler, 25795 [3OC]
Delinquent borrowing in the Farmers Home Administration: Ralph W. Perlone, 2500 [19FE]
Equitable waiver in compromise and collection of Federal claims (H.R. 1890): Comptroller General, 35093 [6DE]
———White House, 35093 [6DE]
IMF employee salaries and benefits, 20664 [25JY]
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act (H.R. 2942): Representatives Dingell and Waxman, 19645 [18JY]
Require Federal agencies to report annually on status of implementation of Grace Commission recommendations: Foundation for the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, Inc., 10598 [6MY]
Messages
Rescissions of Budget Authority: President Reagan, 1931 [6FE]
Papers
Civil ``RICO'' Provisions Should Be Amended To Require a Prior Criminal Conviction: Arthur G. Koumantzelis, 35815 [10DE]
Remarks in House
Bigeye bomb: GAO investigation into testing performance, 15795 [13JN]
Competition in Contracting Act: executive branch suspension of certain provisions, 7604 [4AP]
Corporations: taxation breaks and Government grants, 5588 [19MR]
Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act: amend (H.R. 898), 1640 [31JA]
Defense Contract Audit Agency: transfer the functions to GAO (H.R. 3784), 32404 [19NO]
EPA: implementation of emergency removal provisions of superfund, 4327 [5MR]
Federal claims: provide for an equitable waiver in compromise and collection (H.R. 1890), 18959 [15JY], 36938 [17DE]
Field Office Closing Justification Act: enact, 11170 [8MY]
FRS: require an audit (H.R. 70), 490 [3JA]
Government officials: use of chauffeurs, 24512 [20SE]
Government programs: technical amendments, 7726 [4AP]
GPO: wages, 6900 [28MR]
Grace Commission: require Federal agencies to report annually on status of implementation of recommendations (H.R. 2297), 10598 [6MY]
Legislative branch: making appropriations (H.R. 2942), 35815 [10DE]
———making appropriations (H.R. 2942), appointment of conferees, 26669 [8OC]
———making appropriations (H.R. 2942), conference report, 29348-29354 [29OC]
———making appropriations (H.R. 2942), permission to file conference report, 28602 [23OC]
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act: enact (H.R. 2942), 19635-19669 [18JY]
Medical malpractice: effects on cost and quality of health care, 37497 [17DE]
Metric Conversion Repeal Act: enact, 545 [3JA]
Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act: enact (H.R. 1960), 7705 [4AP]
Outer Continental Shelf: eliminate certain Dept. of the Interior report requirements (H.R. 1983), 7725 [4AP]
Whistleblowers: incentive about Government waste and abuse, 7747 [4AP]
———protection, 16468 [20JN]
Remarks in Senate
Aliens: prohibitions against employment-related discrimination, 23726-23735 [13SE]
———terminate certain provisions relating to unlawful employment if certain adverse conditions have resulted, 23716-23720 [13SE]
———terminate certain provisions relative to unlawful employment if certain adverse conditions have resulted, 23716-23720 [13SE]
Dept. of Defense: findings on resources management public affairs plan, 6247 [26MR]
Executive departments: impact of targeting of emergency expenditures, 6241 [26MR]
Federal Advisory Council: authorize audit (S. 1075), 10543 [6MY]
Federal claims: provide for an equitable waiver in compromise and collection (H.R. 1890), 35092, 35093 [6DE], 35918 [11DE]
Federal Government: fraud hotline, 1079 [24JA]
Federal Open Market Committee: authorize audit (S. 1075), 10543 [6MY]
FRS: authorize audit of Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve banks (S. 1075), 10543 [6MY]
International Brotherhood of Teamsters: Central States Pension Fund management, 27560, 27561 [15OC]
Legislative branch: making appropriations (H.R. 2942), 21710-21725 [31JY]
———making appropriations (H.R. 2942), appointment of conferees, 22490 [1AU]
———making appropriations (H.R. 2942), conference report, 29521-29531 [29OC], 29692 [30OC]
Medicare: allow home health coverage on daily basis (S. 778), 7944 [16AP]
National Homeless Awareness Day: observance, 6817 [28MR]
Transportation: enhance collection of overpayments, 16662 [20JN]
Reports
Analysis of Implementation of DOD's Resources Management Public Affairs Plan, 6248-6254 [26MR]
Chemical Weapons (excerpt), 13206 [22MY]
Community block grant funds (excerpt), 14415 [5JN]
Contracting Practices on Federal Water Projects (excerpt), 8578 [22AP]
Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act Amendment (H.R. 898), 1640 [31JA]
Deficiencies in CW Defense Posture—Calls for CW Defense Improvements Not Binary Production, 15791 [13JN]
Differences and Similarities Between the Inspector General Act and the Foreign Service Act, 15094-15099 [11JN]
Economic Policy Responses to an Oil Disruption, 15907 [17JN]
Energy Development Causes Varying Impacts and Responses (excerpt), 31913 [14NO]
Federal Energy Projects (excerpt), 30024 [31OC]
Great Plains Coal Gasification Project, 4190 [28FE]
Legislative Branch Appropriations: committee of conference (H.R. 2942) (H. Rept. 99-321), 28698-28700, 28701 [23OC]
Multi-Year Government Contracting (excerpt), 28978 [24OC]
Operation Crossroads—Personnel Radiation Exposure Estimates Should Be Improved (summary), 36455 [13DE]
Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp.'s Plan Termination Regulations (excerpt), 31970 [14NO]
Potential for Excess Funds in the Dept. of Defense, 28352-28359 [22OC]
President's Suspension of the Competition in Contracting Act: Committee on Government Operations (House) (excerpt), 25801 [3OC]
Principles of Federal Appropriations Law, 35001-35003 [6DE]
Provide Equitable Waiver in Compromise and Collection of Federal Claims: Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 1890), 35092 [6DE]
Reallocation of Unspent WIC Funds by States (excerpt), 16651 [20JN]
Reporting Requirements for Agencies Proposing Removals or Adverse Action Incident To Closing Field Offices: Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (H.R. 2401) (H. Rept. 99-186), 17910 [27JN]
Responsibilities of the Merit Systems Protection Board (excerpt), 30685 [6NO]
Results of GAO Federal Government Fraud Hotline (summary), 1080 [24JA]
State Department's Office of Inspector General Should Be More Independent and Effective, 15085-15093 [11JN]
Status of U.S. Participation in International Energy Agency's Emergency Sharing System, 15913-15915 [17JN]
Students Getting Federal Aid Are Not Making Satisfactory Academic Progress, 21731 [31JY]
Tehran American School Reimbursement Claim, 268 [3JA]
Tobacco Program (excerpt), 28402 [22OC]
U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Objectives Are Not Being Met (excerpt), 9842 [30AP]
WIC Program (excerpt), 33326, 33330 [22NO]
Statements
Constitutionality of the Procurement Statute of the Competition in Contracting Act: Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the U.S., 25801 [3OC]
Defense Procurement: Donald J. Horan, 13770, 13773 [24MY]
Development of the MX Missile, 5433 [19MR]
Field Office Closing Justification: President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (excerpt), 11170 [8MY]
Reallocation of Unspent WIC Funds by States: Brian Crowley, 16651 [20JN]
WIC Program: Brian Crowley, 33326 [22NO]
Studies
Civil Aspects of Fraud Cases (excerpt), 24483 [20SE]
Waste in the Defense Department—Executive Summary: National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, 8077-8078 [16AP]
Tables
Comparative statement of new budget (obligational) authority—Legislative Branch Appropriations Act (H.R. 2942), 19635-19639 [18JY]
Federal budget authority in current and constant dollars for Executive and Legislative Branches, fiscal year 1978-86, 19640 [18JY]
Legislative branch appropriations conference report (H.R. 2942), 29348 [29OC], 29522-29531 [29OC]
Legislative branch appropriations (H.R. 2942), 22499 [31JY]
Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch spending totals for the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act (H.R. 2942), 29692 [30OC]
Texts of
H.R. 1890, provide for an equitable waiver in compromise and collection of Federal claims, 18958 [15JY]
H.R. 1960, Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act, 7706 [4AP]
H.R. 2942, Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 19646-19648 [18JY]
Metric Conversion Repeal Act, 546 [3JA]
S. 1075, authorize audit of Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve banks, Federal Advisory Council, and Federal Open Market Committee, 10544 [6MY]