[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 6 (Monday, February 15, 1993)]
[Pages 167-168]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Fiscal Responsibility

 February 10, 1993

Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies and 
Employees of the Executive Office of the President

Subject: Government Fiscal Responsibility and Reducing Perquisites

    To promote Government fiscal responsibility by cutting the 
perquisites and excesses of Government office, it is hereby ordered as 
follows:
    Section 1. Executive Dining Facilities
    Executive dining facilities in the executive departments and 
agencies and the White House Executive Mess will not be permitted 
hereafter to provide below-cost meals. The Office of Management and 
Budget, after consultation with the agencies as needed, will develop 
promptly a plan and issue any directives required to recover the costs 
of meals served in these executive dining rooms.

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    I strongly support the decision of those Secretaries who have 
concluded that they do not need an executive dining room for the conduct 
of their agencies' business and have closed and converted them to other 
uses. I therefore am requesting the other heads of agencies to review 
their official needs and close voluntarily executive dining facilities 
that are not essential for the regular conduct of Government business.
    Section 2. Conferences
    The public interest requires that agencies exercise strict fiscal 
responsibility when selecting conference sites. Accordingly, agencies 
are not to select conference sites without evaluating the cost 
differences of prospective locations. When agency representatives attend 
conferences sponsored by others, the agency must keep its representation 
to a minimum consistent with serving the public's interest. The Office 
of Management and Budget, after consultation with the agencies, will 
issue further directives necessary to implement this requirement.
                                            William J. Clinton