Government Performance and Results Act: Overview of Associated Provisions in the 106th Congress

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Government Performance and Results Act:

Overview of Associated Provisions in the

106th Congress

December 20, 2002

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Government Performance and Results Act: Overview of

Associated Provisions in the 106th Congress

Summary

The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (P. L. 103-62, known

as GPRA, or the Results Act) established a new framework for performance

management and budgeting in federal agencies. In complying with GPRA, agencies

must set goals, devise performance measures, and assess results achieved. This

report identifies and analyzes provisions in public laws and committee reports from

the 106th Congress (1999-2000) relating to GPRA and its implementation, including

comparisons to similar provisions in the 104th and 105th Congresses. The purpose of

these studies is to review ways in which Congress and its committees engage in

oversight of GPRA, and, more generally, monitor implementation efforts by the

executive branch agencies.

Online databases were used to identify language of potential interest in

committee reports and in the public laws from the 106th Congress. The resulting

electronic files were examined and pruned, with the remaining relevant excerpts

captured for further analysis.* This approach covered specific citations to GPRA,

as well as provisions that are or might be deemed associated with GPRA, such as

performance measures and strategic plans. The research identified 42 public laws

from the 106th Congress containing statutory language relating to GPRA and

performance measurement. Two of these laws were omnibus measures containing

GPRA-associated provisions from 10 separate bills, arguably better counted as 10

items rather than two, for a total of 50 enacted measures from the 106th Congress

with GPRA-related provisions. Previous CRS studies identified 14 public laws with

performance-related provisions enacted during the 104th Congress, and 28 in the

105th. Although the rate of increase of 100% from the 104th to the 105th in the

number of public laws with GPRA-associated provisions was not quite sustained, the

rate of increase from the 105th to the 106th was significant at almost 79%.

In addition to statutes with GPRA-associated provisions, a search of committee

reports identified 24 additional public laws from the 106th Congress that contained

GPRA-associated passages in accompanying reports, compared with 17 laws so

identified in the 105th. Thus a total of 74 laws enacted in the 106th Congress were

determined to have GPRA-relevant provisions in statutory language or in committee

report language, compared with a total of 45 public laws from the 105th Congress

with GPRA-relevant provisions in statute or accompanying reports.

Congressional efforts to oversee GPRA implementation continued in the 107th

Congress. Moreover, the inclusion of budget and performance integration as a key

initiative in the President’s Management Agenda arguably has increased attention to

GPRA-related issues in the executive branch. This report, with its focus on the 106th

Congress, will not be updated, but other CRS products on GPRA and performance

management and budgeting will be revised and expanded as events warrant.

*Genevieve Knezo, Resources, Science, and Industry Division, participated equally with the

author in this phase of the research, and her contributions are gratefully acknowledged.

Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Overview of Provisions in 106th Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

References to GPRA and Related Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Examples of References to GPRA in Public Laws

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Examples of References to GPRA in Committee Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Appropriations reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Authorization and oversight reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Afterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Appendix A: Laws from the 106th Congress Identified with

GPRA-Associated Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Appendix B: Committee Reports

in the 106th Congress Identified

with GPRA-Related Passages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

House Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Senate Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

List of Tables

Table 1. Instances of 106th Congress Committee Reports with

GPRA-Associated Passages by House Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Table 2. Instances of 106th Congress Committee Reports with

GPRA-Associated Passages by Senate Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Table 3. House Reports Accompanying Enacted Measures

Identified with Performance Measure Features or GPRA-Associated

Passages, from 104th, 105th and 106th Congresses, by House Committee . . 10

Table 4. Senate Reports Accompanying Enacted Measures Identified

with Performance Measure Features or GPRA-Associated Passages,

from 104th, 105th and 106th Congresses, by Senate Committee . . . . . . . . . . 11

Table 5. GPRA-Associated Provisions in the106th Congress: References

to the Results Act and Related Documentationa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

This report was prepared at the request of Members of Congress.

Government Performance and Results Act:

Overview of Associated Provisions in the

106th Congress

Introduction

The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (known as GPRA, or the

Results Act)1 sought to promote greater efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability

in federal spending by establishing a new framework for performance management

and budgeting in federal agencies. GPRA establishes three types of ongoing

planning, evaluation, and reporting requirements for executive branch agencies:

strategic plans (covering 6 years but to be revised at least every 3years), annual

performance plans, and annual reports on program performance. In complying with

GPRA, agencies must set goals, devise performance measures, and then assess results

achieved.

GPRA joined a number of other budget and financial management reform laws

enacted in the last 24 years that were designed to upgrade existing procedures or to

provide new mechanisms for managing government operations and improving

accountability. Important new roles were established by the Inspector General Act

of 1978 and the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act of 1990. The Government

Management and Reform Act of 1994 and the Federal Financial Management

Improvement Act of 1996 contained important amendments to the CFO Act.2 In

addition to their impact on executive management and accountability, these statutes

provide new or enhanced data and information about federal programs and

performance. In turn, they establish new mechanisms and means for congressional

oversight, or “the review, monitoring, and supervision of the implementation of

public policy.”3

The framework created by the Results Act might contribute to several purposes

which congressional oversight of the executive branch is designed to fulfill. For

example, reports to Congress pursuant to GPRA arguably can facilitate evaluation

of program performance; lead to improvements in the efficiency, effectiveness, and

1

P.L. 103-62, 107 Stat. 285, 31 U.S.C. 1115 note. For background on the law, see CRS

Report RS20257, Government Performance and Results Act: Brief History and

Implementation Activities, by Genevieve Knezo; and CRS Report RS20938, Performance

Management and Budgeting: Benchmarks and Recent Developments, by Virginia

McMurtry.

2

For discussion of these laws, see CRS Report RL30895, General Management Laws: A

Selective Compendium–107th Congress.

3

CRS Report RL30240, Congressional Oversight Manual.

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economy of governmental operations; help to assess the ability of agencies to manage

and carry out program objectives; and assist in reviewing and determining federal

financial priorities.4

In terms of GPRA, congressional oversight is essential not only to foster

successful implementation of the Act itself, but also to make certain that Congress

reaps its expected benefits.5 The importance of GPRA for all types of congressional

committees was alluded to by then Comptroller General Charles Bowsher in 1996

testimony: “Authorization, appropriation, budget and oversight committees all have

key interests in ensuring that GPRA is successful, because once fully implemented,

it should provide valuable data to help inform the decisions that each committee must

make.”6

Progress in GPRA implementation has proved uneven to date. Some agencies

have yet to define fully their goals, program objectives, and expected outcomes and

results, and to develop appropriate measures to gauge their attainment, in accordance

with GPRA standards. Concerns have been expressed. about the costs and benefits

of developing new results-oriented performance measurement systems, about the lack

of interagency coordination to use similar measures to compare similar programs, and

about the need to link “Results Act” implementation to the everyday work of

program managers.

Supporters of GPRA contend that performance management and budgeting are

feasible, and assert that accountability and congressional control over the budget will

increase as Congress gains experience in using objective, results-oriented information

to oversee agencies and develop budget priorities. However, others are concerned

that GPRA might become a futile and wasteful paperwork exercise, with its

documentation largely ignored on Capitol Hill.

This report identifies and analyzes provisions in public laws and committee

reports from the 106th Congress relating to GPRA and its implementation.7 This

work is a sequel to previous CRS studies examining such provisions in public laws

and their associated reports from the 105th Congress,8 and in statutes enacted during

4

See ibid. for a review of oversight, its meaning, characteristics, and techniques; for

elaboration on these and other purposes of oversight, see pp. 1-4.

5

For further discussion of GPRA and oversight, see CRS Report 97-382, Government

Performance and Results Act: Implications for Congressional Oversight, by (name redact

ed) and (name redacted).

6

See Performance-Based Government: Examining the Government Performance and

Results Act of 1993. Joint hearing, 1996, p. 7.

7

In this discussion the term “provisions” is sometimes used in a broad sense to cover

instances of GPRA-related language in committee reports, as well as more formal

“provisions” in public laws, in order to avoid unduly convoluted phraseology. Generally,

however, such GPRA-relevant elements from committee reports are referred to as

“passages.”

8

U.S. Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, Performance Measure

(continued...)

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the 104th Congress.9 The purpose of these studies is to review ways in which

Congress and its committees engage in oversight of GPRA, and, more generally,

monitor implementation efforts by the executive branch agencies.

This report provides an overview analysis of data collected by CRS on

congressional efforts to monitor the implementation of the Government Performance

and Results Act during the 106th Congress (1999-2000). The approach entails an

assessment of GPRA-related provisions identified in an electronic search of public

laws and committee reports. It should be noted that this approach covered specific

citations to GPRA, as well as provisions that are or might be deemed associated with

GPRA, such as performance measures and strategic plans. After providing an

overview of the data, this report examines specific references from the 106th

Congress to GPRA and its related documentation.

Methodology

Online databases were used to identify legislative language of potential interest

in committee reports and in the public laws enacted by the 106th Congress. Searching

the LEXIS/NEXIS public law and committee reports libraries created an initial list

of “hits” for the term “performance.” Additional searches were executed to identify

other possible variations of language in statutes referencing the Government

Performance and Results Act (e.g. “Results Act,” and “GPRA”). For this review of

the 106th Congress the additional search term of “strategic plan” also was used.

The resulting electronic files of excerpts were examined to establish the

relevance of each occurrence of the keyword terms. Although it was not necessary

that the Results Act, or GPRA, be cited explicitly, the identified provisions had to

be in accord with the law’s requirements, or at least allude to performance

measurement.10

For the 105th Congress, excerpts from committee report language otherwise

meeting the criteria for inclusion, but accompanying a bill that was not enacted into

8

(...continued)

Provisions in the 105th Congress: Analysis of a Selected Compilation, by (name redact

ed) and (name redacted), CRS ge

neral distribution memorandum (Washington:

Jan. 7, 1999). 49 p.

9

CRS Report 97-1059, Government Performance and Results Act: Performance-related

Requirements Included in Laws and in Committee Report Language During the 104th

Congress, by (name redacted) and William Heniff.

10

For example, language referring to “performance” of an artistic work was clearly not

relevant to our interest, whereas language concerning technical performance requirements

for facilities or equipment might appear less clear-cut, but was generally excluded. This

pruning of the tentative listing of identified examples, through assessments by the analysts,

eliminated more than a third of the hits from the original computer search. Relevant excerpts

then were captured in electronic format for further analysis. Genevieve Knezo, Resources,

Science, and Industry Division, participated equally with the author in this phase of the

research, and her contributions are gratefully acknowledged.

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law, were excluded from further consideration. Also excluded were references to

GPRA or to performance measures in oversight reports not attached to any

legislation. The CRS review of the 106th Congress is more comprehensive than were

the previous efforts in that contents from all committee reports were examined.

Committee reports searched for the 106th Congress included reports accompanying

legislation enacted or vetoed, legislative reports accompanying bills that received

committee action in at least one chamber, but did not become public law, as well as

oversight reports.

In some cases, there were segments relevant to performance measures in the

committee report(s), but not in the statutory language itself. Where language in a

committee report simply repeated bill language or reflected changes in current law

that would occur with enactment, the passages from the report generally were not

included in this analysis. Additional caveats should be mentioned. First, committee

report language does not reflect the full extent to which committees provided

commentary or guidance on performance measures. Committee hearings doubtless

contain additional references, and, particularly during development and revision of

the strategic plans, informal meetings of congressional and agency staff often occur.

Second, report language as well as public laws may include provisions relevant to

GPRA implementation; however, unless GPRA or “performance” or “strategic plan”

were mentioned, the provision was not captured in this survey.11

As was done in the previous CRS studies of performance measure provisions,

for the purposes of facilitating the analysis of provisions identified in public laws and

reports from the 106th Congress, a listing of descriptive attributes was established.12

Items in the listing were suggested by the excerpts of legislative language selected,

and were intended to identify similar types of language (albeit not necessarily

identical). Moreover, these categories were not designed to be mutually exclusive;

a given provision could be judged to reflect more than one category. Nor are the

categories necessarily of equal significance; some appear to be more important than

others. The excerpted passages were then assigned to these categories, grouped under

five broad headings, which included: references to GPRA and related documents,

congressional guidance to agency implementation of performance measures,

congressional instruction to recipients of federal funding about GPRA application,

GPRA and budget matters, and other performance-related components. These five

headings then provided the framework for the discussion and analysis of the

provisions. In addition to an overview of GPRA-associated provisions in the 106th

Congress, this report covers the first heading, references to GPRA and related

documents, while others are to be addressed subsequently in a companion report.

Quantitative analysis was limited to counts of whether certain categories apply

to the GPRA-associated provisions identified in laws and reports from the 106th

Congress. For example, the number of laws and reports that explicitly mention the

11

Committees may choose to issue findings relevant to GPRA as a committee print or in

some other form of documentation, rather than as a formal committee report. However, the

electronic data files searched in this study covered only committee reports.

12

The listing of categories used in the 105th Congress provided the starting point for the

analysis of provisions in the 106th as well, but some modifications were subsequently made.

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Results Act was indicated. Most of the categories, however, do not lend themselves

to quantitative analysis, because the ways in which they apply in different cases are

not equivalent. In addition, quantitative analysis of categories that are not analogous

cannot be meaningfully compared. A category was counted only once for a given law

or report to which it applied. For example, if one report mentioned GPRA 10 times

and another only once, they were treated as two occurrences, not 11. The use of this

conservative approach reduces the risk of artificially inflating the significance of the

occurrences. The numbers referred to in the subsequent discussion were derived by

creating an Access database of the GPRA-related passages and their attributes.13

Another caveat mentioned originally in the report for the 104th Congress bears

repeating, but arguably now may be receding as a concern: “While a number of

committee reports contain performance-oriented language, it is not possible to

determine if this is a change from previous Congresses. Earlier laws and committee

reports, perhaps even predating 1993, may have included requirements for agencies

to provide performance-related data.”14 However, without the availability of data

over a longer period, particularly some benchmarks for the situation before enactment

of GPRA, conclusions based on apparent trends over time, such as changes in the

frequency of including provisions requiring performance information or in the types

of such provisions, remain less than certain.

Overview of Provisions in 106th Congress

The research identified 42 relevant public laws from the 106th Congress

containing statutory language relating to GPRA and performance measures (see

listing in Appendix A). Two of these laws were omnibus measures; the Consolidated

Appropriations Act for FY2000 contained GPRA-associated provisions from six

originally free-standing bills, while the Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2001

incorporated relevant provisions from four measures, so arguably P. L. 106-113 and

P.L. 106-554 should be counted as constituting 10 items rather than two, for a total

of 50 enacted measures from the 106th Congress with explicit GPRA or GPRArelated provisions.15

Previous CRS studies identified 14 public laws with performance-related

provisions enacted during the 104th Congress, and 28 in the 105th. While the rate of

13

The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Clay Wellborn and Kevin Gates in

creating the Access database and producing the counts and cross- tabulations needed for the

analysis of GRPA-related provisions.

14

CRS Report 97-1059, op. cit., p. 3.

15

However, four of these public laws included reference to a”strategic plan” but not to

“performance” or directly to GPRA. Since “strategic plan” was not used as a search term

in the CRS studies of previous Congresses, for purposes of comparison it could be argued

that it is more accurate to exclude the latter four, and use the figure of 46 laws with

performance measure provisions in the 106th Congress. However, since the figures on

occurrences in the 106th Congress have relevance aside from comparisons with previous

Congresses, it was decided to use the adjusted figure of 50 public laws from the 106th

Congress identified with GPRA-associated provisions.

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increase of 100% from the 104th to the 105th in the number of public laws with

GPRA-associated provisions was not quite sustained, the rate of increase from the

105th to the 106th was rather convincing at almost 79%.

In addition to statutes with GPRA-associated provisions, a search of committee

reports identified 24 more public laws from the 106th Congress that contained GPRAassociated passages in accompanying reports (from the House, Senate, or conference

committees). So a total of 74 laws in the 106th Congress were acknowledged to have

relevant provisions in statute, or GPRA-related passages in accompanying committee

reports. In comparison, a total of 45 public laws from the 105th Congress had GPRArelated provisions; 28 of these contained statutory provisions, while the remaining

17 had relevant passages in accompanying reports.

In many instances a single public law had more than one accompanying report

with relevant passages. For the 106th Congress, the study identified a total of 118

reports with GPRA-associated passages accompanying bills passed by both the

House and Senate and either enacted into law or vetoed by the President.16 Of the 118

reports, 52 came from House committees, 38 from Senate committees, and 28 from

conference committees.

As noted above in the methodology discussion, CRS examination of committee

reports from the 106th Congress was more comprehensive than in previous studies of

performance measurement provisions. The search of committee reports for the 106th

Congress included legislative reports accompanying bills that received committee

action in at least one chamber, but were not necessarily enacted, as well as oversight

reports. With this expanded purview, 87 additional reports with GPRA-associated

passages were identified (52 from House committees and 35 from Senate

committees), for a grand total of 205 reports from the 106th Congress with relevant

passages. Appendix B provides a listing of the reports.

The 205 reports containing GPRA-associated passages in the 106th Congress

included 28 from conference committees, and a total of 104 from House committees

and 73 from Senate committees (see Tables 1 and 2). In the House 18 of the 20

committees were included, while in the Senate 15 of the 20 committees were

represented. However, in both chambers the committees with the most reports

identified with GPRA-associated passages were the appropriations committees: 19

reports, or 14% of all the Senate reports, came from the Senate Appropriations

Committee, and 23 reports, or 24% of all the House reports with relevant passages,

came from the House Appropriations Committee. After the two Appropriations

Committees, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee came next with a total of

12 reports, followed by the House Resources Committee (12), House Education and

Workforce Committee (11), and House Science Committee (10).

16

The reports accompanying vetoed measures were grouped with those accompanying

enacted bills, because of the 14 reports in this category 10 accompanied appropriations

measures eventually enacted under some rubric other than that of the original bill (three

from House Appropriations Committee, four from Senate Appropriations Committee, and

three from committees of conference).

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Another perspective incorporates the distribution of committees from which the

reports with relevant passages came across the three Congresses for which we have

data. As mentioned above, for the previous two Congresses, only reports

accompanying measures which became public laws were encompassed by the CRS

studies. For the 106th Congress, we sought to cover all committee reports. However,

for the purposes of comparison across Congresses, only those reports from the 106th

conforming with the previous parameters were included, i.e., committee reports

accompanying measures that were enacted or vetoed. Table 3 provides data for

House committees from the 104th, 105th, and 106th Congresses, while Table 4

reflects the figures for Senate committees over the same six-year period.

Following a pattern seen previously in the 104th and 105th Congresses, and for

the 106th Congress as well, the committees submitting the most reports having

GPRA-associated passages that accompanied bills signed into law or vetoed by the

President in both House and Senate were the Appropriations Committees. In the

House, 23 out of 52 total reports, or 44%, were from the Appropriations Committee;

and in the Senate, 18 out of 38 reports, or 47%. However, in the previous Congresses

the Appropriations Committees accounted for a majority of the committee reports

having GPRA-related passages accompanying bills enacted into law: 56% in the 104th

Congress and 54% in the 103rd Congress. So while the House and Senate

Appropriations Committees retained “first place” for the respective chambers in the

106th Congress, reports with GPRA-associated passages were becoming more

broadly dispersed among the various House and Senate committees. As indicated in

Table 3, in the 104th Congress, performance measurement-related passages appeared

in reports of four House committees; in the 105th, eight committees; and in the 106th,

18 committees. For the Senate, in the 104th Congress, these reports came from five

committees; in the l05th Congress, six committees; and in the 106th Congress, 15

committees (see Table 4). With respect to the distribution by Appropriations

subcommittees, in the 106th Congress, 23 of the 26 subcommittees had reports with

GPRA-associated passages (12 of 13 in the House, and 11 of 13 in the Senate).17

17

Appropriations Subcommittees for which no GPRA-associated passages were identified

in 106th Congress committee reports included the House and Senate Subcommittees on

Military Construction and the Senate Subcommittee on Defense.

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Table 1. Instances of 106th Congress Committee Reports with

GPRA-Associated Passages by House Committee

House Committees

Total

Report with

bill enacted

or vetoed

Othera

Agriculture

2

1

1

Appropriations

23

23

0

Armed Services

2

2

0

Banking and Financial Services

3

0

3

Budget

1

1

0

Commerce

6

2

4

Education and the Workforce

11

2

9

Government Reform

4

1

3

House Administration

0

0

0

International Relations

2

2

0

Judiciary

3

0

3

Resources

12

5

7

Rules

6

0

6

Science

10

2

8

Select Committee on Intelligence

3

2

1

Small Business

2

1

1

Standards of Official Conduct

0

0

0

Transportation and Infrastructure

5

3

2

Veterans’ Affairs

2

2

0

Ways and Means

7

3

4

104

52

52

Totals

a. Includes oversight reports, and other reports not accompanying measures passed by both the House

and the Senate.

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Table 2. Instances of 106th Congress Committee Reports with

GPRA-Associated Passages by Senate Committee

Senate Committees

Total

Report with

bill enacted

or vetoed

Othera

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

0

0

0

Appropriations

19

18

1

Armed Services

2

1

1

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

2

0

2

Budget

1

0

1

Commerce, Science, and Transportation

6

2

4

Energy and Natural Resources

4

2

2

Environment and Public Works

4

2

2

Finance

2

1

1

Foreign Relations

3

1

2

Governmental Affairs

12

7

5

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

8

1

7

Indian Affairs

5

2

3

Judiciary

0

0

0

Rules and Administration

1

0

1

Select Committee on Ethics

0

0

0

Select Committee on Intelligence

0

0

0

Small Business

2

1

1

Special Committee on Aging

0

0

0

Veterans’ Affairs

2

0

2

Totals

73

38

35

a. Includes oversight reports, and other reports not accompanying measures passed by both the House

and the Senate.

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Table 3. House Reports Accompanying Enacted Measures

Identified with Performance Measure Features or GPRAAssociated Passages, from 104th, 105th and 106th

Congresses, by House Committee

Congress

104th

1995-96

105th

1997-98

Agriculture

1

1

1

Appropriations

8

20

23

Armed Servicesa

1

0

2

Banking and Financial Services

0

0

0

Budget

0

0

1

Commerce

0

1

2

Education and the Workforce

0

3

2

Government Reform

2

1

1

House Administration

0

0

0

International Relations

0

0

2

Judiciary

0

0

0

Resources

0

0

5

Rules

0

0

0

Science

0

1

2

Select Committee on Intelligence

0

0

2

Small Business

0

0

1

Standards of Official Conduct

0

0

0

Transportation and Infrastructure

0

1

3

Veterans’ Affairs

0

0

2

Ways and Means

0

1

3

Totals

12

29

52

House Committees

a. Called National Security Committee in 104th Congress

106th

1999-2000

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Table 4. Senate Reports Accompanying Enacted Measures

Identified with Performance Measure Features or GPRAAssociated Passages, from 104th, 105th and 106th

Congresses, by Senate Committee

Congress

104th

1995-96

105th

1997-98

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Committee

0

1

Appropriations Committee

7

22

19

Armed Services Committee

1

0

2

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

Committee

0

0

0

Budget Committee

1

0

0

Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Committee

0

1

2

Energy and Natural Resources Committee

0

1

2

Environment and Public Works Committee

0

1

2

Finance Committee

0

0

1

Foreign Relations Committee

0

0

1

Governmental Affairs Committee

2

0

8

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Committee

1

4

1

Indian Affairs Committee

0

0

2

Judiciary Committee

0

0

0

Rules and Administration Committee

0

0

0

Select Committee on Ethics

0

0

0

Select Committee on Intelligence

0

1

0

Small Business Committee

0

0

1

Special Committee on Aging

0

0

0

Veterans’ Affairs Committee

0

0

0

Totals

12

30

41

Senate Committees

106th

1999-2000

0

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References to GPRA and Related Documents

In over half of all the committee reports and public laws from the 106th Congress

identified as having GPRA- related provisions (136 out of 255), there were explicit

references to the Government Performance and Results Act. Sometimes the act was

merely mentioned or cited, while in other instances GPRA was endorsed in a

supportive way, such as for overall quality of implementation, or specifically with

regard to an agency’s strategic or performance plans or performance reports (see

Table 5).

Table 5. GPRA-Associated Provisions in the106th Congress:

References to the Results Act and Related Documentationa

Number of Public Laws

Identified (with type)

Number of Committee

Reports Identified

Mentions Act

6

31

Endorses Act

0

16

Refers to Strategic Plan

15

77

Refers to Performance

Plan

2

32

Refers to Performance

Report

2

21

Other

1

13

Type of reference

a. A given report or public law identified as having GPRA related provisions could contain more than

one type of reference. As noted above, over half of the reports and public laws from the 106th

Congress recognized as having GPRA-relevant provisions displayed at least one of the types of

references reflected in the table.

Sometimes the language in reports or public laws included reference to or

endorsement of GPRA, accompanied by discussion of concerns regarding

performance measurement, budget linkages, or some other factor. Such “dual”

characteristic provisions are to receive further attention in a separate CRS report,

forthcoming, providing a more detailed analysis of GPRA and associated provisions

from the 106th Congress.

Examples of References to GPRA in Public Laws

In terms of specific references to GPRA found in public laws from the 106th

Congress, references to strategic plans were most prevalent (15 instances identified),

while there were two references each to performance plans and reports; there were

also six general mentions of the act (see Table 5). Some examples will serve to

illustrate the variety of these provisions.

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Section 103(a) of P.L. 106-503, the Fire Administration Authorization Act of

2000, contained a requirement for a new strategic plan:

Not later than April 30, 2001, the Administrator of the United States Fire

Administration shall prepare and transmit to the Committee on Science of the

House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and

Transportation of the Senate a 5-year strategic plan of program activities for the

United States Fire Administration. (114 Stat. 2299)

Section 103(b) titled “Contents of Plan,” stipulated 13 items to be addressed in the

strategic plan, starting with a comprehensive mission statement and ending with the

expected costs for implementing the plan. Subparagraph (10) in Section 106(b)

entailed “a description of how the strategic plan prepared under this section will be

incorporated into the strategic plan and the performance plans and reports of the

Federal Emergency Management Agency” (114 Stat. 2999, 2300). Further, the

House report accompanying the measure referred to the section with the strategic

plan provisions and noted: “The language in this section matches closely the

language on strategic plans in the Government Performance and Results Act.”18

The Small Business Reauthorization Act of 2000, enacted as a part of the

Consolidated Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-554–Appendix I)

references the agency’s annual performance plan as required by 31 USC 1115(a) and

(b) (i.e., GPRA). Section 106, “Report on Programs for Annual Performance Plan,”

amended the Small Business Act, to require the inclusion within the annual

performance plan for the Small Business Administration of a section on the SBIR

(small business innovation research) program, and the submission of such section to

the Committee on Small Business of the Senate, and to the House Science and Small

Business committees (114 Stat. 2763A-669).

P.L. 106-565, the Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission Act of 2000,

requires the new body to prepare a strategic plan and annual performance plans.

Section 4(c)(2)(a) provides: “In accordance with the Government Performance and

Results Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-62; 107 Stat. 285), the Commission shall prepare a

strategic plan and annual performance plans for the activities of the Commission

carried out under this Act” (114 Stat. 2814-15).

A final example comes from the National Defense Authorization Act for

FY2000 (P.L. 106-65). In Section 245(a)(2), “Additional Pilot Program for

Revitalizing Department of Defense Laboratories,” reference is made to GPRA

(codified) as a factor for consideration by the Secretary of Defense in choosing

participants in the pilot program. The provision stipulates: “In selecting the

laboratories for participation in the pilot program, the Secretary shall consider

laboratories where innovative management techniques have been demonstrated,

particularly as documented under sections 115 through 1119 of title 31, United States

Code, relating to Government agency performance and results” (113 Stat. 553).

18

U.S. Congress. House Committee on Science, Fire Administration Authorization Act of

1999, report to accompany H.R. 1550, 106th Cong., 1st sess., H. Rept. 106-133 (Washington:

GPO, 1999), p. 10.

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Examples of References to GPRA in Committee Reports

Many of the citations to GPRA and related documents identified in 106th

Congress committee reports occurred in reports of the Appropriations Committees.

However, there were also instances in reports accompanying authorization measures,

as well as in committee oversight reports. The following discussion considers some

examples of such passages in the respective types of committee reports.

Appropriations reports. Most of the reports from the Appropriations

committees identified in this study contained multiple references to GPRA. The

examples cited below provide a sampling.

While less prevalent than in the preceding Congress, general language

conveying committee support for GPRA was inserted in many committee reports

from the 106th Congress. One such instance occurred in the Senate report

accompanying the Agriculture appropriations bill for FY2001. After alluding to the

GPRA requirements, the report stated:

The Committee supports the concepts of this law and intends to use the

agencies’ plans for funding purposes. The Committee considers GPRA to be a

viable way to reduce Federal spending while achieving a more efficient and

effective Government and will closely monitor compliance with this law. The

Committee is fully committed to the success and outcome of GPRA requirements

as envisioned by the Congress, the administration, and this Committee.19

Comments in a committee report regarding support for GPRA and progress to

date were also directed to a particular agency. For example, the Senate report

accompanying the FY2000 Labor/HHS/Education bill noted with specific reference

to the Administration on Aging: “The Committee supports the efforts of the agency

in implementing the Government Performance and Results Act and believes the

agency should continue work in this area.”20

In the Senate report accompanying the FY2001 Transportation appropriations

bill, a separate section titled “Government Performance and Results Act” (placed

within the summary of major recommendations discussion), likewise conveyed

support and praise for GPRA: “The Committee is fully committed to support the

[Transportation] Department as it seeks to implement the requirements of the Results

Act” and “commends the Department for its aggressive implementation” of GPRA.21

19

U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Agriculture, Rural Development,

Food and Drub Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001, report to

accompany S. 2536, 106th Cong., 2d sess., S. Rept. 106-288 (Washington: GPO, 2000), p.

9.

20

U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Departments of Labor, Health and

Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2000, report to

accompany S. 1650, 106th Cong., 1st sess., S. Rept. 106-166 (Washington: GPO, 1999), p.

228.

21

U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Department of Transportation and

(continued...)

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Moving beyond generalities, the discussion then turns to an assessment of the

department’s combined FY2001 performance plan and FY1999 performance report,

citing both accomplishments and shortcomings to date. In its performance report for

FY 1999 the Department of Transportation included data for over 90% of the

measures in the 1999 plan, with the department meeting or approaching (“had a

positive trend”) for about 77% of its 1999 goals. However, for five goals “missed

by a significant amount, the Department is reviewing its strategies to see if they need

to be changed.”22 The committee report also examined Transportation’s FY2001

performance plan, concluding:

Clearly, the [Transportation] Department has made major strides with its

performance plan, but that plan has yet to penetrate the day-to-day operations of

the Department, the modal administrations, or the procurement or personnel

processes. In short, the plans are very useful documents for determining how the

Department views the relative and absolute importance of its disparate goals and

a valuable gauge of whether the Departmental leadership is serious about

remedying identified deficiencies or inconsistencies in programs, activities,

management, or direction.23

Sometimes the appropriations reports contained an overview assessment of

GPRA implementation for all the major agencies funded in the bill. For example, in

the Senate report accompanying the VA/HUD FY2000 appropriations, an

introductory section titled “Government Performance and Results Act,” noted:

The Committee remains very concerned regarding the compliance of the

major agencies within the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommittee on

VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies with regard to the Government

Performance and Results Act (GPRA). While each agency has made progress

toward compliance with GPRA, each has additional progress to make. Each

agency must do better at providing objective, measurable goals for all program

activities and projects, and each budget justification must tie these goals into a

coherent set of funding requests.24

Another format for presentation of committee observations regarding GPRA

was used in the Senate report accompanying the FY2001 Labor/HHS/Education bill.

This report included as part of its introductory discussion a separate section on

GPRA. However, there were no general remarks across agencies, but rather specific

observations regarding the performance plans and reports provided for each cabinet

department covered by the bill. For example, the committee seemed quite pleased

with GPRA activities in the Department of Health and Human Services, finding its

21

(...continued)

Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001, report to accompany S. 2720, 106th Cong., 2d

sess., S. Rept. 106-309 (Washington: GPO, 2000), p. 6.

22

Ibid., p. 6.

23

Ibid., p. 8.

24

U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Departments of Veterans Affairs

and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000,

report to accompany S. 1596, 106th Cong., 1st sess., S. Rept. 106-161 (Washington: GPO,

1999), p. 5.

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performance plan “much improved over previous years. Many parts of the [FY2001

performance] plan do fulfill the Results Act’s purpose of ensuring that Congress has

the necessary information to assess whether HHS programs are achieving intended

results.”25

It was not feasible to calculate the total number of references to GPRA in each

report. However, the reports accompanying Labor/ HHS/Education appropriations

bills appeared to contain among the most. In the House report accompanying the

FY2000 bill, there were over 50 mentions of GPRA and over 100 hits on related

terms such as performance measure and strategic plan.26 In a section titled

“Government Performance and Results Act,” toward the beginning of the report, the

committee stated that it “continues to believe” that the departments and agencies

within its jurisdiction “have made adequate progress” in establishment of goals and

benchmarks, yet “remain a long way from meeting its overall intent.”27 In

subsequent sections, the report notes, repeatedly, “The Committee is concerned that

after two years of Congressional interest and six years since the passage of GPRA...”

a specified agency or program funded via the bill has not identified specific

numerical performance goals, or specific measurable standards. However, the

committee’s report language on occasion was quite complimentary with regard to

GPRA implementation. For example, in the House report accompanying the

Labor/HHS/Education FY2001 bill, the committee conveyed special approval in

discussion of the account for departmental management (salaries and expenses) for

the Education Department: “The Committee continues to be pleased with the

emphasis the Department’s senior management team has placed on complying with

the Government Performance and Results Act. The Committee expects the

Department to continue to develop and refine GPRA measures for all programs....”28

There was at least one instance in a report from a conference committee

accompanying an appropriations bill in the 106th Congress where a general reference

to GPRA was included. In the joint explanatory statement accompanying the

Treasury bill for FY2000, in discussing the President’s proposal on climate change,

the conferees noted, “With regard to programs pursued under the President’s

25

U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Departments of Labor, Health and

Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2001, report to

accompany S. 2553, 106th Cong., 2d sess., S. Rept. 106-293 (Washington: GPO, 2000), p.

21.

26

U.S. Congress. House Committee on Appropriations, Departments of Labor, Health and

Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2000, report to

accompany H.R. 3037, 106th Cong., 1st sess., H. Rept. 106-370 (Washington: GPO, 1999).

27

28

Ibid., p. 10.

U.S. Congress. House Committee on Appropriations, Departments of Labor, Health and

Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2001, report to

accompany H.R. 4577, 106th Cong., 2d sess., H. Rept. 106-645 (Washington: GPO, 2000),

p. 177.

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proposal, the conferees expect the administration to comply with the letter and spirit

of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA).”29

Authorization and oversight reports. There were varied references to

GPRA in authorization reports, although not as frequently as in appropriations

reports. A few examples follow.

The Senate report accompanying H.R. 1833, the Customs Authorization Act of

1999, contained a discussion of provisions in Section 202 (regarding internal

compliance and management of customs), and how they emanated from GPRA:

The proposal would institutionalize the management changes begun by the

Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, which requires all

government agencies to establish performance measures and assess their

performance on an annual basis. The internal compliance model, with its higher

emphasis on encouraging compliance through training, self-assessment, the

identification of specific management objectives for the succeeding review

period, and the measurement of agency performances against those benchmarks,

draws on best practices currently available within government and the private

sector to encourage management by objective throughout the agency, and thereby

contribute to the improvement in Customs’ performance of its mission

responsibility.30

The report accompanying S. 296, the Federal Research Investment Act, referred

to GPRA and the special problems encountered by research agencies in implementing

it, noting:

While funding levels are one important consideration for Federal R&D

programs, another issue is improving the effectiveness of such programs. On

August 3, 1993, the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) was

signed into law.... Individual agencies are submitting performance plans to

Congress during the FY2000 authorization and appropriations cycle. The General

Accounting Office reports that research agencies have encountered difficulties

in preparing strategic plans and in developing performance measures.31

In reviewing the background on authorizing legislation for the Department of

Energy (DOE), a report from the House Science Committee provided a summary of

hearings on the measure, including one on March 24, 1999, titled “Fiscal Year 2000

29

U.S. Congress. Committee of Conference, Making Appropriations for the Treasury

Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and

Certain Independent Agencies, for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2000, and for

Other Purposes, conference report to accompany H.R. 2490, 106th Cong., 1st sess., H. Rept.

106-319 )Washington: GPO, 1999), p. 56.

30

U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Customs Authorization Act of 1999, report

to accompany H.R. 1833, S. Rept. 106-156, 106th Cong., 1st sess. (Washington: GPO, 1999),

p. 20.

31

U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Federal

Research Investment Act, report to accompany S. 296, 106th Cong., 1st sess., S. Rept. 106106 (Washington: GPO, 1999), p. 2.

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Budget Authorization Request: Department of Energy Results Act Implementation.”

The DOE Inspector General testified on reviews by his office relating to GPRA

implementation and presented his findings and recommendations, while a witness

from GAO offered observations regarding DOE’s record in implementing GPRA.

Also appearing from DOE was the Director of Strategic Planning, Budget, and

Program Evaluation, who related agency efforts to comply with the Results Act and

characterized the two main challenges remaining for DOE in GPRA implementation

as “refining and perfecting measures so that they represent outcomes, not outputs,

and ensuring that all Department activities, budgets, contracts, and plans clearly link

to the strategic plan.”32

There were also references in oversight reports. For example, the House

Committee on Government Reform held hearings and issued an oversight report on

federal financial management reform, which referenced GPRA in relation to the

Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 (CFO Act), as expanded by the Government

Management Reform Act of 1994 (GMRA), and further amended by the Federal

Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996 (FFMIA). The 1999 report stated:

It is imperative that these acts [CFO Act, GMRA, and FFMIA] are

implemented successfully. They form the basis for the data used in measuring

program performance under the Government Performance and Results Act. ...

Thus, at a minimum, strong congressional oversight is needed to achieve the

primary goal of all these laws: a Federal Government that is accountable to the

American taxpayers.33

In the Senate, the Appropriations Committee prepared a special report on the

impact of GPRA on the appropriations process, focusing particularly on agency

performance plans for FY2000. The report assessed agency implementation under

the rubric of the subcommittees and provided some general observations:

As this report illustrates, the quality and usefulness of the performance plan is

directly impacted by the following factors: (1) the quality of the agency’s goals

and measures; (2) an agency’s vulnerability to external factors in achieving its

goals; (3) the accuracy of agency data; (4) agency responsiveness to GAO and

Congressional concerns and/or recommendations, such as the GAO high risk

areas; (5) the quality and frequency of the consultation process between the

32

U.S. Congress. House Committee on Science, Department of Energy Research,

Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1999, report to accompany H.R.

1655, 106th Cong., 1st sess., H. Rept. 106-243 (Washington: GPO, 1999), pp. 16-17.

It should be noted that there were several oversight hearings on GPRA in the 106th

Congress, but unless they were mentioned in a committee report, such as that accompanying

the DOE reauthorization bill just cited, they are not reflected in this CRS study. As noted,

the search technique for identifying relevant provisions encompassed public laws and

committee reports, but not hearings.

33

U.S. Congress. House Committee on Government Reform, Making the Federal

Government Accountable: Enforcing the Mandate for Effective Financial Management,

106th Cong., 1st sess., H. Report. 106-170 (Washington: GPO, 1999), pp. 3-4.

The point was reiterated in a sequel issued in the second session. See Making the

Federal Government Accountable: Enforcing the Mandate for Effective Financial

Management, 106th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Rept. 106-802 (Washington: GPO, 2000), p. 3.

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agency and Congressional staff; and (6) the commitment of agency staff to

comply with the Results Act.34

As a final example of references in reports not accompanying appropriations

measures,35 there was mention of GPRA implementation in the report of the Senate

Budget Committee accompanying the budget resolution for FY2000. The language

read:

The Committee-reported resolution assumes that the discipline of the

spending caps will be maintained by the Committees of the Congress beginning

to actively engage in oversight and implementation of the ‘Government

Performance and Results Act of 1993' that was designed specifically to identify

low performance and ineffective government spending programs.36

Afterword

This report provided an overview analysis of data relating to congressional

efforts to monitor the implementation of the Government Performance and Results

Act during the 106th Congress (1999-2000). The approach used was to examine

GPRA-related provisions identified in an electronic search of public laws and

committee reports from the 106th Congress. After providing an overview of the data,

this report focused on specific references to GPRA and related documentation

(strategic plans and annual performance plans and reports). The discussion

proceeded to consider instances of GPRA-related provisions in public laws, and also

in committee reports from appropriation and authorization committees as well as in

committee oversight reports.

Congressional efforts to oversee GPRA implementation in executive branch

agencies continued in the 107th Congress. In January 2001, the House approved

changes in its standing rules to require that committee reports authorizing new

funding include a statement of general performance goals and objectives, including

34

U.S. Congress. S. Committee on Appropriations, Special Report on the Government

Performance and Results Act of 1993, 106th Cong., 2nd sess., Senate Rept. 106-347

(Washington: GPO, 2000), p. 95.

35

There were also two special studies by committee staff which referenced GPRA,

issued by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee toward the end of the 106th

Congress. However, since these documents were released by the chairman in the

form of committee prints rather than as full committee reports, they fell outside the

purview of this study. See report of Sen. Fred Thompson, Management Challenges Facing

the New Administration, 106th Cong., 2nd sess, Senate Prt. 106-62 (Washington: GPO, 2000);

and Major Management Challenges Facing Federal Departments and Agencies, Senate Prt.

106-63, (Washington: GPO, 2000).

36

U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on the Budget, Concurrent Resolution on the Budget

FY2000, report to accompany S. Con. Res. 20, 106th Cong., 1st sess., S. Rept. 106-27

(Washington: GPO, 1999), p. 2.

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outcome-related goals and objectives.37 On June 19, 2001, the House Government

Reform Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management and

Intergovernmental Relations held a hearing focusing on “The Results Act: Has it Met

Congressional Expectations?” On September 19, 2002, the same subcommittee of

the House Government Reform Committee, along with the Subcommittee on

Legislative and Budget Process of the House Rules Committee, held a joint oversight

hearing on “Linking Program Funding to Performance Results.”38

In a statement submitted for the record of the September hearing, Sen. Fred

Thompson conveyed some thoughts on the future of GPRA, observing:

We still have a long way to go in implementing the Results Act and in

making the federal government more results-oriented and performance-based.

We are at the point after all these years of implementing the Results Act where

we need to start using performance information to make decisions or we might

as well give up on the Act.39

Sen. Thompson then voiced some optimism regarding the future of GPRA, noting

that he was “encouraged by the President’s unprecedented interest in, and the Office

of Management and Budget’s new focus on, integrating performance review with

budget decisions.” In a similar vein, Rep. Stephen Horn, Chairman of the

Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management, and

Intergovernmental Relations, observed in his opening statement that many agencies

“have made significant progress” in using their GPRA plans and reports to measure

their performance. However, the connection between performance results and

funding decisions has been lacking, and until decision makers firmly establish that

linkage, “the Results Act will remain largely a paper exercise.... Fortunately, the

current Administration is intent on establishing this link.” Rep. Deborah Pryce,

Chairman of the Rules Subcommittee on the Legislative and Budget Process,

likewise noted that she was encouraged by recent efforts “to establish a more

meaningful link between ...(GPRA) and the budget process,” and concluded her

opening statement “by saying that as government performance rating tools and

measures become more and more reliable, Congress will be finally responsible for

using and integrating this information into our budgetary and fiscal decisionmaking.”40

To review very briefly recent developments in the executive branch relating to

GPRA and performance budgeting, in August 2001the Bush Administration released

the “President’s Management Agenda,” for improving performance; one of five

37

Rule X, clause 4(c)(2). See Rules of the House of Representatives, 107th Congress,

prepared by Jeff Trandahl, Clerk of the House, Jan. 3, 2001.

38

Testimony available online at http://www.house.gov/rules/rules_test17.htm.

39

Senator Fred Thompson, Linking Program Funding to Performance Results, Statement for

the Record before a joint hearing, Sept. 19, 2002. Ibid.

40

See ibid. for text of the opening statements by Rep. Horn and Rep. Pryce.

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government-wide initiatives identified was budget and performance integration.41 On

February 4, 2002, President Bush transmitted his budget for FY2003, which sought

to incorporate the five management initiatives, including budget and performance

integration, into agencies’ budgets and introduced a “Management Scorecard” to

measure progress.42 In a memorandum dated April 24, 2002, from OMB Director

Daniels, regarding planning for the FY2004 budget requests, the Bush

Administration announced that its effort to base budget decisions on program

performance would continue and be expanded:

As a part of the President’s budget and performance integration

management initiative, this year we will continue our emphasis on program

effectiveness. OMB has already begun an extensive effort to identify a subset

of programs and evaluation metrics for these programs..... Effectiveness ratings

for approximately 20 percent of your programs will be published in the

President’s FY 2004 Budget.43

The final version of the new program performance assessment rating tool,

known as PART, was issued in July, 2002.44 PART was used by agency program

managers and OMB budget examiners to evaluate over 200 programs during the

budget review process for the President’s FY2004 budget in the fall of 2002.

According to OMB officials, while scores from PART are intended to be used in

making budget decisions, the purpose is diagnostic and not punitive. A low score

this year will not necessarily lead to funding cuts, OMB officials assert, and it could

mean that the program needs more funding in order to be successful.45 Despite such

reassurances, some are concerned that eventually PART may be used to justify

substantial reductions in, or perhaps elimination of, programs not favored by the

Administration.

41

See OMB, The President’s Management Agenda,” Aug. 2001. Available electronically

at [http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2002/mgmt.pdf].

42

See Budget of the United Sates Government, Fiscal Year 2003, Analytical Perspectives

(Washington: GPO, 2002), pp. 3-16, re. “Budget and Performance Integration,” and pp. 411415, re. “Scorecard Standards for Success.”

43

See OMB, “Planning for the President’s Fiscal Year 2004 Budget Request,” Memorandum

for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies from Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., M-02-06,

April 24, 2002.

44

See OMB, “Program Performance Assessments for the FY2004 Budget,” Memorandum

for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies from Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., M-02-10,

July 16, 2002.

45

Ibid. Further discussed by Marcus Peacock, OMB briefing on PART for invited

participants, October 25, 2002. Mr. Peacock is the OMB Associate Director for Natural

Resources, Energy, and Science, and concurrently serves as the lead for the performance and

budget integration component of the president’s management initiative.

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Appendix A: Laws from the 106th Congress

Identified with GPRA-Associated Provisions

P.L. 106-25

Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999

P.L. 106-53

Water Resources Development Act of 1999

P.L. 106-57

Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2000

P.L. 106-58

Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2000

P.L. 106-65

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000

P.L. 106-69

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,

2000

P.L. 106-74

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and

Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000

P.L. 106-78

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and

Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000

P.L. 106-79

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000

P.L. 106-84

To amend the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to provide for

greater fiscal autonomy consistent with other United States jurisdictions, and

for other purposes.

P.L. 106-107

Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999

P.L. 106-113

Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY2000, including provisions from

these bills:

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and

Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and

Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000

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Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs

Appropriations Act, 2000

Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001

Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of

1999

Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of

1999

P.L. 106-117

Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act

P.L. 106-129

Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999

P.L. 106-148

National Geologic Mapping Reauthorization Act of 1999

P.L. 106-159

Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999

P.L. 106-169

Foster Care Independence Act of 1999

P.L. 106-170

Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999

P.L. 106-181

Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century

P.L. 106-202

Worker Economic Opportunity Act

P.L. 106-224

Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000

P.L. 106-246

Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2001

P.L. 106-259

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2001

P.L. 106-284

Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000

P.L. 106-292

To authorize appropriations for the United States Holocaust Memorial

Museum, and for other purposes.

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P.L. 106-303

To make certain personnel flexibilities available with respect to the General

Accounting Office, and for other purposes.

P.L. 106-309

Microenterprise for Self-Reliance and International Anti-Corruption Act of

2000

P.L. 106-310

Children’s Health Act of 2000

P.L. 106-373

Famine Prevention and Freedom From Hunger Improvement Act of 2000

P.L. 106-377

Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and

Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001

P.L. 106-398

Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001

P.L. 106-404

Technology Transfer Commercialization Act of 2000

P.L. 106-414

Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation

(TREAD) Act

P.L. 106-501

Older Americans Act Amendments of 2000

P.L. 106-503

Fire Administration Authorization Act of 2000

P.L. 106-505

Public Health Improvement Act

P.L. 106-531

Reports Consolidation Act of 2000

P.L. 106-554

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001, including provisions from these

bills:

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and

Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001

Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001

Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection

Act of 2000

Small Business Reauthorization Act

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P.L. 106-562

To approve a governing international fishery agreement between the United

States and the Russian Federation.

P.L. 106-565

Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission Act of 2000

P.L. 106-568

Omnibus Indian Advancement Act

P.L. 106-569

American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000

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Appendix B: Committee Reports

in the 106th Congress Identified

with GPRA-Related Passages

House Reports46

Paperwork Elimination Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-11, part 1)

Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-43)

Making Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending

September 30, 1999, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-64)

Oversight Plans for All House Committees (H.Rept. 106-78)

Microenterprise for Self-Reliance Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-82)

Beaches Environmental Assessment, Cleanup, and Health Act of 1999 (H.Rept.

106-98)

Earthquake Hazards Reduction Authorization Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-99, part

1)

Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-100)

Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-106, part 1)

Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 1480, the Water Resources Development

Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-120)

Fire Administration Authorization Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-133)

American Land Sovereignty Protection Act (H.Rept. 106-142)

Making Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending

September 30, 1999, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-143)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 1999

(H.Rept. 106-145)

National Weather Service and Related Agencies Authorization Act of 1999

(H.Rept. 106-146)

Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-155, part 1)

Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-156)

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related

Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-157)

Trade Agency Authorizations, Drug Free Borders, and Presentation of On-Line

Child Pornography Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-161)

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (H.Rept. 106-162)

Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 1401, the National Defense Authorizstion

Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (H.Rept. 106-166)

Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (H.Rept. 106-167, part 1)

Child Care Services for Federal Employees (H.Rept. 106-169)

Making the Federal Government Accountable: Enforcing the Mandate for

Effective Financial Management (H.Rept. 106-170)

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000

(H.Rept. 106-180)

Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act of 1999 (House Report 106-198,

part 2)

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Reports from conference committees are included here. According to congressional

practice, conference reports are issued with House numbers.

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Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-202)

Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-220, part 1)

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000

(H.Rept. 106-222)

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Bill, 2000

(H.Rept. 106-231)

Teacher Empowerment Act (H.Rept. 106-232, part 1)

Veterans’ Millennium Health Care Act (H.Rept. 106-237)

Financial Freedom Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-238)

Department of Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization

Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-243)

Department of Defense Appropriations Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-244)

District of Columbia Appropriations Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-249)

Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-253)

Foreign Operations, Export Financial, and Related Programs Appropriations

Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-254)

Wellton-Mohawk Transfer Act (H.Rept. 106-257)

Clear Creek Distribution System Conveyance Act (H.Rept. 106-258)

Sly Park Unit Conveyance Act (H.Rept. 106-259)

Carlsbad Irrigation Project Acquired Land Conveyance Act (H.Rept. 106-260)

Department of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies

Appropriations Bill, Fiscal Year 2000 (H.Rept. 106-283)

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and

Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-286)

American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-287, part 1)

Taxpayer Refund and Relief Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-289)

Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-298)

Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-300)

Health Research and Quality Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-305)

Making Appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal

Service, the Executive Office of the President, and Certain Independent

Agencies, for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2000, and for Other

Purposes (H.Rept. 106-319)

Export Enhancement Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-325)

Small Business Innovation Research Program Reauthorization Act of 1999

(H.Rept. 106-329, part 1)

Motor Carrier Safety Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-333)

To Provide Greater Fiscal Autonomy for the Virgin Islands (H.Rept. 106-337)

Making Appropriations for Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related

Programs for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2000, and for Other

Purposes (H.Rept. 106-339)

Recycle America’s Land Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-353)

Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug

Administration, and Related Agencies Programs for the Fiscal Year Ending

September 30, 2000, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-354)

Making Appropriations for the Department of Transportation and Related

Agencies for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2000, and for Other

Purposes (H.Rept. 106-355)

Rewarding Performance in Compensation Act (H.Rept. 106-358)

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Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 2990, the Quality Care for the Uninsured

Act of 1999, and H.R. 2723, the Bipartisan Consensus Managed Care

Improvement Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-366)

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related

Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-370)

Making Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the Fiscal Year Ending

September 30, 2000, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-371)

Making Appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and

Urban Development, and for Sundry Independent Agencies, Boards,

Commissions, Corporations, and Offices for the Fiscal Year Ending

September 30, 2000, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-379)

Academic Achievement for All Act (H.Rept. 106-386)

National Geologic Mapping Reauthorization Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-389)

Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-393,

part 1)

Student Results Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-394, part 1)

Student Results Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-394, part 2)

Making Appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the

Judiciary, and Related Agencies for the Fiscal year Ending September 30,

2000, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-398)

Making Appropriations for the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies

for the Fiscal year Ending September 30, 2000, and for Other Purposes

(H.Rept. 106-406)

Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 2300, the Academic Achievement for All

Act (H.Rept. 106-408)

Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 2260, Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999

(H.Rept. 106-409)

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (H.Rept.

106-415)

Making Appropriations for the Government of the District of Columbia and Other

Activities Chargeable in Whole or in Part Against Revenues of Said District

for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2000, and for Other Purposes

(H.Rept. 106-419)

Fathers Count Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-424, part 1)

Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Amendments of 1999 (H.Rept.

106-429)

Welfare-to-Work Amendments of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-456, part 1)

United States Marshals Service Improvement Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-459)

Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of 1999 (H.Rept.

106-464)

Wage and Employment Growth Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-467, part 1)

Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act (H.Rept. 106-470)

Tribal Self-Governance Amendments of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-477)

Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-478)

Making Appropriations for the Government of the District of Columbia and Other

Activities Chargeable in Whole or in Part Against Revenues of Said District

for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2000, and for Other Purposes

(H.Rept. 106-479)

Debt Relief for Poverty Reduction Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-483, part 1)

Small Watershed Rehabilitation Amendments of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-484, part 2)

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Coastal Community Conservation Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-485)

Department of Energy Commercial Application of Energy Technology

Authorization Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-492, part 1)

Indian Tribal Economic Development and Contract Encouragement Act of 1999

(H.Rept. 106-501)

Literacy Involves Families Together Act (H.Rept. 106-503)

Environmental Protection Agency Office of Air and Radiation Authorization Act

of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-511)

Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development and

Science Advisory Board Authorization Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-512, part 1)

Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century

(H.Rept. 106-513)

American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 (H.Rept. 106553)

Education Opportunities to Protect and Invest in Our Nation’s Students

(Education Options) Act (H.Rept. 106-608)

Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 853, the Comprehensive Budget Process

Reform Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-613)

Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001

(H.Rept. 106-616)

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related

Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001 (H.Rept. 106-619)

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (H.Rept. 106-620)

Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 4205, National Defense Authorization

Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (H.Rept. 106-621)

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001

(H.Rept. 106-622)

America’s Private Investment Companies Act (H.Rept. 106-638)

Department of Defense Appropriations Bill, 2001 (H.Rept. 106-644)

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related

Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2001 (H.Rept. 106-645)

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001

(H.Rept. 106-646)

Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (H.Rept. 106-661)

Higher Education Technical Amendments of 2000 (H.Rept. 106-665)

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and

Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001 (H.Rept. 106-674)

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related

Agencies Appropriations Bill, Fiscal Year 2001 (H.Rept. 106-680)

Improving Counterintelligence Capabilities at the Department of Energy and the

Los Alamos, Sandia, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories

(H.Rept. 106-687)

Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill, 2001 (H.Rept. 106-693)

Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations

Bill, 2001 (H.Rept. 106-720)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (H.Rept. 106-751)

Making Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the Fiscal Year Ending

September 30, 2001, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-754)

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Bill, 2001

(H.Rept. 106-756)

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Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration Partnership Act of 2000 (H.Rept. 106762)

Amending Title 44, United States Code, to Authorize Appropriations for the

National Historical Publications and Records Commission for Fiscal Year

2002 Through 2005 (H.Rept. 106-768)

Child Support Distribution Act of 2000 (H.Rept. 106-793)

Making the Federal Government Accountable: Enforcing the Mandate for

Effective Financial Management (H.Rept. 106-802)

Education National Science Act (H.Rept. 106-821, part 1)

Intellectual Property Technical Amendments Act of 2000 (H.Rept. 106-853)

Making Appropriations for Energy and Water Development for the Fiscal Year

Ending September 30, 2001, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-907)

Making Appropriations for the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies

for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2001, and for Other Purposes

(H.Rept. 106-914)

Enactment of Provisions of H.R. 5408, the Floyd D. Spence National Defense

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (H.Rept. 106-945)

Marine Research and Related Environmental Research and Development

Programs Authorization Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-987, part 1)

Making Appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and

Urban Development, and for Sundry Independent Agencies, Boards,

Commissions, Corporations, and Offices for the Fiscal Year Ending

September 30, 2001, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-988)

Making Appropriations for Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related

Programs for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2001, and for Other

Purposes (H.Rept. 106-997)

Making Appropriations for the Government of the District of Columbia and Other

Activities Chargeable in Whole or in Part Against Revenues of Said District

for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2001, and for Other Purposes

(H.Rept. 106-1005)

CALFED Extension Act of 2000 (H.Rept. 106-1018, part 1)

Beneficiary Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 (H.Rept. 106-1019, part 1)

Water Resources Development Act of 2000 (H.Rept. 106-1020)

Making Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for

Fiscal Year 2001 (H.Rept. 106-1033)

Senate Reports

The Soldiers’, Sailors’, and Airmen’s and Marines’ Bill of Rights Act of 1999

(S.Rept. 106-1)

Air Transportation Improvement Act (S.Rept. 106-9)

Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act (S.Rept. 106-12)

Concurrent Resolution on the Budget FY2000 (S.Rept. 106-27)

Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-34)

Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-37)

Report on Legislative Activities of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

(S.Rept. 106-40)

Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000-2001 (S.Rept. 106-43)

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000

(S.Rept. 106-55)

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Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related

Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2000 (S.Rept. 106-76)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Years

2000, 2001, and 2002 (S.Rept. 106-77)

National Geologic Mapping Reauthorization Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-78)

Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriation

Bill, 2000 (S.Rept. 106-81)

Patients’ Bill of Rights Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-82)

Legislative and Oversight Activities During the 105th Congress by the Senate

Committee on Veterans’ Affairs (S.Rept. 106-86)

Treasury and General Government Appropriation Bill, 2000 (S.Rept. 106-87)

District of Columbia Appropriations Bill, 2000 (S.Rept. 106-88)

Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999 (S.Rept.

106-103)

Federal Research Investment Act (S.Rept. 106-106)

Regulatory Improvement Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-110)

Veterans Benefits Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-122)

Providing Technical Corrections to the Native American Housing Assistance and

Self-Determination Act of 1996, to Improve the Delivery of Housing

Assistance to Indian Tribes in a Manner that Recognizes the Right of Tribal

Self-Governance, and for Other Purposes (S.Rept. 106-145)

Summary of Legislative and Oversight Activities During the 105th Congress of the

Committee on Small Business (S.Rept. 106-147)

Customs Authorization Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-156)

Federalism Accountability Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-159)

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and

Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000 (S.Rept. 106-161)

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related

Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2000 (S.Rept. 106-166)

Griffith Project Prepayment and Conveyance Act (S.Rept. 106-173)

The Export Administration Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-180)

Estuary Habitat Restoration Partnership Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-189)

To Provide Federal Housing Assistance to Native Hawaiians (S.Rept. 106-192)

Youth Drug and Mental Health Services Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-196)

Safety Advancement for Employees Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-202)

Amending the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to Provide

for Further Self-Governance by Indian Tribes, and for Other Purposes

(S.Rept. 106-221)

The Technical Assistance, Trade Promotion, and Anti-Corruption Act of 2000

(S.Rept. 106-257)

Government Information Security Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-259)

Educational Opportunities Act (S.Rept. 106-261)

Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-274)

Agriculture, Rural Development. Food and Drug Administration, and Related

Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-288)

Small Business Innovation Research Program Reauthorization Act of 2000

(S.Rept. 106-289)

Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriation

Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-291)

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (S.Rept. 106-292)

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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related

Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-293)

Ryan White Care Act Amendments of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-294)

Disaster Mitigation Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-295)

Legislative Branch Appropriations, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-304)

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001

(S.Rept. 106-309)

The Next Generation Internet 2000 (S.Rept. 106-310)

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001

(S.Rept. 106-312)

The Microenterprise for Self-Reliance Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-335)

Reports Consolidation Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-337)

Special Report on the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (S.Rept.

106-347)

Presidential Transition Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-348)

Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106366)

Earth, Wind, and Fire Authorization Act (S.Rept. 106-384)

Airport Security Improvement Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-388)

Amending the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act to Revise and

Extend Such Act (S.Rept. 106-389)

Energy and Water Development Appropriation Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-395)

Older Americans Act Amendments of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-399)

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related

Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-404)

District of Columbia Appropriations Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-409)

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and

Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-410)

Coastal Zone Management Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-412)

To Provide for the Transfer of Public Lands to Certain California Indian Tribes

(S.Rept. 106-449)

Southeast Federal Center Public-Private Development Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106458)

A Bill to Amend Title 44, United States Code, to Authorize Appropriations for the

National Historical Publications and Records Commission for Fiscal Years

2002 Through 2005 (S.Rept. 106-466)

Modifying the Date on Which the Mayor of the District of Columbia Submits a

Performance Accountability Plan to Congress, and for Other Purposes

(S.Rept. 106-469)

National Laboratories Partnership Improvement Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-487)

Outfitter Policy Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-491)

District of Columbia Receivership Accountability Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-493)

Amending the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and for Other Purposes (S.Rept.

106-498)

Treasury and General Government Appropriation Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-500)

Public Threats and Emergencies Act (S.Rept. 106-505)

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