conferees without specific authority from the House by a vote of the House on every such amendment. (Secs. 125(b)(3) and 126.) Senate committee rules 12. All Senate standing, select, and special committees will be required to establish and publish rules of procedure of each committee, (not inconsistent with the Standing Rules of the Senate, or provisions of law having the force and effect thereof), not later than March 1 of each year, unless such committees are established on or after February 1 of a year, in which event such rules are to be published in the Congressional Record not later than 60 days after their establishment; and any amendments thereto are to be published not later than 30 days after adoption, subject to certain exceptions. (Sec. 130.) Jurisdiction of Senate standing committees 13. The Committee on Banking and Currency is redesignated as the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and additional jurisdiction is conferred upon that committee with respect to "Urban Affairs generally." (Sec. 131.) 14. A new Committee on Veterans' Affairs is created which is given the jurisdiction over those matters relating to veterans which are now divided among the Senate Committees on Finance, Labor and Public Welfare, and Interior and Insular Affairs. (Sec. 131.) Membership of Senate standing committees 15. The Act, in effect, (1) classifies all of the standing committees as major and minor, and limits the membership of each to a specific number; (2) limits the numbers and types of committee assignments; and (3) limits the number of committee and subcommittee chairmanships which a Member would be permitted to hold. However, the reductions and limitations provided for would be accomplished gradually, and all of the existing rights of present Members would be preserved. (Sec. 132 (a–c).) The Act does not actually designate standing committees as "major" or "minor" in those terms. The proposed classification would be accomplished by amendments to Rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate. The "major" committees are those which are presently considered major standing committees and their ultimate total membership would be limited, subject to stated exceptions to 200. The "minor" committees, with an ultimate total of 34, would be the District of Columbia, Post Office and Civil Service, Rules and Administration, and the newly-established Veterans' Affairs Committee. (Sec. 132(c).) The figure of 200 Members for major standing committees represents a determination that, after the expiration of all "grandfather" rights, no Senator would be permitted to serve on more than two such committees, in addition to minor, special and joint committees. Major standing committee memberships were established at 217 at the outset of the 91st Congress. Subject to the preservation of existing rights, the Act permits each Senator to serve on (1) two major committees, not more than one of which may be Appropriations, Armed Services, Finance, or Foreign Relations; (2) one minor, joint, select or special committee; and (3) one additional temporary committee or joint committee which will exist for not more than one Congress, or one joint committee with jurisdiction over subject matter which is directly related to the Member's minor committee assignment. (Sec. 132 (d).) 51-186 0-702 Committee and subcommittee chairmanships 16. The Act would, subject to the preservation of existing rights, prohibit a Senator from serving as chairman of more than one standing. select, special, or joint committee; or of more than one subcommittee of each of his major standing committees. However, a Senator, who is serving as chairman of one of the four types of committees referred to, would be permitted, in addition, to serve as chairman of (1) a joint committee having jurisdiction over subject matter directly related to the jurisdiction of a standing committee of which he is chairman; and (2) one temporary committee or joint committee which will exist for not more than one Congress. (Sec. 132 (d).) Preservation of existing rights 17. The Act provides for the preservation of all of the rights of Senators to standing, select, special, and joint committee memberships, and committee and subcommittee chairmanships, held by them on the day preceding the effective date of Title I of the Act, as long as their service as Member or chairman remains continuous thereafter. Pro- | vision is also made to preserve and extend, until June 30, 1971, the rights of 17 senior Senators who, under existing Senate rules, are ( serving on three major standing committees, one of which is either the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences or the Committee on Government Operations. Thus, a Senator in this category would be entitled to continue to serve on three major standing committees, if his service remains continuous after the effective date of Title I of this Act; in addition, if he retains his membership on one of the two named committees, he may, between that date and June 30, 1971, change one or both of his other two major committee assignments and still retain three major standing committee assignments as long as his service remains continuous thereafter. (Sec. 130(d).) 18. The Act also authorizes a temporary increase of not more than four in the authorized membership of standing committees in in order to give effect to the "grandfather" clauses, and to maintain the necessary balance between majority and minority party committee members which might be upset by the exercise of "grandfather" rights, resulting in numerical control of standing committees by minority party members. In the latter case, such increases would be subject to agreement between the majority and minority leaders; and majority party Senators would be permitted to serve temporarily on three major standing committees for this purpose. (Sec. 130(d).) TITLE II.-FISCAL CONTROLS PART 1.-BUDGETARY AND FISCAL INFORMATION AND DATA' Budgetary and fiscal data processing system and budget standard classification 1. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in cooperation with the U.S. Comptroller General, are required to develop, establish and maintain (1) a standardized information and data processing system, insofar as practicable, for use by all Federal agencies; and (2) standard classifications of programs, activities, receipts and expenditures of Federal 3 Effective immediately prior to noon on January 3, 1971, unless otherwise indicated. agencies, in order to meet the needs of the various branches of the Government and to facilitate such data processing system through the utilization of modern automatic data processing techniques previously authorized, initial classifications of which shall be established not later than December 31, 1971. (Secs. 201 and 202(a).) 2. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget are also required, on or before September 1 of each year, beginning in 1971, to submit to both Houses of the Congress, an annual report, including such comments of the Comptroller General as he deems advisable, in connection with the functions required to be performed in the preceding sections. (Secs. 201 and 202(a) (b).) Availability of data 3. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget would be required, at the request of any committee of either House, or of any joint committee, to provide information on the location and nature of data available in Federal agencies with respect to their programs, activities, receipts, and expenditures, and to prepare for such committee, to the extent feasible, summary tables of such data. (Sec. 203.) Assistance to Congress by GAO 4. The Comptroller General is required to review and analyze the results of Government programs and activities carried on under existing law, including the making of cost benefit studies, (1) upon his own initiative, (2) when ordered by either House of Congress, or (3) when requested by a committee of either House or a joint committee, having jurisdiction over such programs and activities. In addition, the Comptroller General would be required to have available in the GAO employees who are experts in analyzing and conducting cost benefit studies of Government programs, and to assist such committees or their staffs in connection with such studies. (Sec. 204 (a) (b).) Powers and duties of GAO relative to budgetary, fiscal, and related matters 5. The Comptroller General is authorized to organize the General Accounting Office as he deems necessary to carry out the functions and duties imposed upon him, by this part, and is required to include in his annual report to the Congress information with respect to the performance of the functions and duties imposed upon him by the provisions of this title. (Sec. 205.) Preservation of existing authorities 6. Nothing contained in part 1 of Title II shall be construed as impairing any of the authority or responsibility of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget or the Comptroller General of the United States under the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, as amended, and the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act of 1950, as amended, or any other statute. (Sec. 206.) Definition 7. For the purposes of this title, "Federal Agency" is defined to mean any department, agency, wholly owned Government corporation, establishment, or instrumentality of the Government of the United States or the Government of the District of Columbia. (Sec. PART 2.-THE BUDGET Supplemental budget information 1. The President, in his annual budget, is required to inform the Congress of the amounts proposed for appropriation and expenditure in the ensuing fiscal year, and the estimated amounts for each of the ensuing four fiscal years, on each of his proposals creating new programs or changing existing programs. (Sec. 221(a).) 2. The President is required to submit a supplemental Budget summary for the ensuing fiscal year, not later than June 1 of each year, beginning with 1972, which shall reflect, with respect to that year (1) all substantial alterations in or reappraisals of estimates of expenditures and receipts; (2) all substantial obligations imposed on that Budget after its transmittal to the Congress; (3) current information relative to (a) all substantial alterations in or reappraisals of estimates of expenditures and receipts, (b) the estimated condition of the Treasury at the end of the fiscal year in progress, and (c) the estimated condition of the Treasury at the end of the ensuing ( fiscal year if the financial proposals contained in the Budget are adopted. In addition, it shall contain such additional information in summary form as the President considers necessary and advisable to provide the Congress with a complete and current summary of information relative to the Budget and the then currently estimated functions, obligations, requirements, and financial condition of the Government for that ensuing fiscal year. (Sec. 221(b)). 3. The President, on or before June 1 of each year beginning with 1972, is required to transmit to the Congress, in such form and detail as he may determine, (1) summaries of estimated expenditures for the four fiscal years following the fiscal year for which the Budget was transmitted in January, which will be required under continuing programs having a legal commitment for future years, or are considered mandatory under existing law, and (2) summaries of estimated expenditures in future fiscal years of balances carried over from the fiscal year for which the Budget was transmitted in January. (Sec. 221(c).) Note: This new subsection is designed to provide procedures for supplying the Congress with an up-to-date midyear revision of the five-year forecasts of the fiscal impact of existing and proposed Federal programs under the amendments contained in Sec. 221 (a) of the Act. PART 3.-UTILIZATION OF REPORTS AND EMPLOYEES Assistance by GAO to congressional committees in connection with proposed legislation and review 4. At the request of any committee or joint committee, the Comptroller General is required to explain to, and discuss with, that committee or joint committee, or its staff, any report made by the GAO which would assist (1) in its consideration of proposed legislation, including appropriations requests, or (2) its review of any program or of the activities of any Federal agency within its jurisdiction. (Sec. 231.) (It is expected that he will designate employees for this purpose.) Effective with respect to fiscal year beginning or after July 1, 1972. Furnishing GAO reports to congressional committees and Members 5. The Comptroller General, whenever he submit reports to the Congress, is required to deliver copies thereof to the House and Senate (1) Committees on Appropriations; (2) Committees on Government Operations; (3) any other committee or joint committee requesting information on any Federal agency program or activity which is the subject of such report; and (4) to any other such committee or joint committee to which such report has not otherwise been delivered if a request therefor is made. (Secs. 232 and 233.) In addition, the Comptroller General is required to prepare (1) once each calendar month, a list of all GAO reports issued during the preceding calendar month, and (2) not less than once each calendar year, a cumulative list of all such reports issued during the 12 months preceding the issuance of such list. Finally, the Comptroller General is required, upon request of any committee, joint committee or Member of the Congress, promptly to transmit to each such committee or Member a copy of each report so listed and requested. (Secs. 232, 233, and 234.) Assignment of GAO employees to duty with congressional committees 6. No GAO employees may be assigned or detailed to full-time duty on a continuing basis with any Senate or House committee or joint committee for a period of more than one year; and the Comptroller General must report annually to the Congress (1) the name of each employee so assigned and the name of the committee or joint committee to which he has been assigned; (2) the length of the period of assignment and a statement as to whether such assignment or detail is currently in effect; and (3) the sums paid out of appropriations available to the GAO for such employee's pay, travel, subsistence, other expenses, contributions for retirement and insurance benefits and other necessary mandatory expenses for personnel benefits, during the whole of such assignment or detail, or that part of which has been completed. (Sec. 235.) Agency reports 7. Federal agencies are required to submit written statements to the Government Operations Committees of both Houses with respect to the actions they have taken on GAO recommendations concerning such agencies, not later than 60 days after the GAO has issued its report and recommendations, and to the Appropriations Committees of both Houses in connection with their first requests for appropriations submitted to the Congress thereafter. (Sec. 236.) PART 4.-THE APPROPRIATIONS PROCESS Hearings on the budget by Senate and House Appropriations Committees 1. All hearings conducted by the Senate Committee on Appropriations are required to be open to the public unless the committee determines that the testimony to be taken may (a) relate to a matter of national security, (b) tend to reflect adversely on the character or reputation of the witnesses or others, or (c) divulge matters deemed confidential under law or Government regulations; and if they are open, they may be broadcast by radio, television, or both, under such rules as the committee may adopt. (Sec. 242.) 2. The House Committee on Appropriations is required to hold hearings on the Budget each year, receiving testimony from the |