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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4937 

To require the implementation of report recommendations by an inspector 

general regarding wasteful and excessive spending, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 23, 2014 

Mr. MCKINLEY (for himself and Mr. ENYART) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period 

to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 

concerned 

A BILL 

To require the implementation of report recommendations 

by an inspector general regarding wasteful and excessive 

spending, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protection Against 

5 Wasteful Spending Act of 2014’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS OF WASTEFUL AND 

2 EXCESSIVE SPENDING REQUIRED. 

3 (a) IMPLEMENTATION OF REPORT RECOMMENDA4 TIONS REQUIRED.—With respect to each of fiscal years 

5 2014 through 2020 and except as provided in subsection 

6 (b), not later than 4 years after the submission of a report 

7 regarding wasteful and excessive spending, or duplicative 

8 programs causing wasteful and excessive spending, by an 

9 inspector general of an agency (in this Act, referred to 

10 as the ‘‘IG report’’), the head of the agency shall imple11 ment all of the recommendations in such report. 

12 (b) EXCEPTION.—The implementation requirement 

13 in subsection (a) shall not apply to a recommendation by 

14 an inspector general that would violate an existing law. 

15 With regard to any such recommendation, the head of the 

16 relevant agency shall submit to Congress a description of 

17 the necessary change to the law to legally implement the 

18 recommendation. 

19 (c) REPORT REQUIRED.— 

20 (1) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 6 months 

21 after the submission of an IG report, or 6 months 

22 after the date of the enactment of this Act, which23 ever is later, the head of the relevant agency shall 

24 submit to Congress a report on— 

25 (A) the progress of the implementation of 

26 each recommendation in the IG report; 


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1 (B) the time period required to complete 

2 each such implementation; 

3 (C) the wasteful and excessive spending, 

4 and duplicative programs causing wasteful and 

5 excessive spending within each agency described 

6 in the IG report; 

7 (D) the savings created from the comple8 tion of implementing each recommendation; and 

9 (E) the reason each recommendation was 

10 not implemented before the submission of the 

11 IG report. 

12 (2) SUBSEQUENT REPORTS.—Not later than 13 

13 months, and yearly thereafter until an updated re14 port is submitted for fiscal year 2020, after the sub15 mission of an IG report, the head of the relevant 

16 agency shall submit to Congress an updated report 

17 on the information described in subparagraphs (A) 

18 through (E) of paragraph (1). 

19 SEC. 3. FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS. 

20 (a) IN GENERAL.—Any agency that fails to imple21 ment a recommendation from an IG report, that is not 

22 an exception under section 2(b), in a timely manner, may 

23 not obligate any funds available to such agency for— 


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1 (1) convention or seminar attendance and inter2 national or domestic travel by any politically-ap3 pointed official; or 

4 (2) any bonus or salary increase, performance 

5 or otherwise, with respect to such an official. 

6 (b) FUNDS SUBJECT TO OBLIGATION LIMITATION.— 

7 On the date that is 60 days after the submission of a re8 port pursuant to section 2(c) that shows that an agency 

9 has failed to implement a recommendation of an IG report 

10 in a timely manner, of the funds prohibited from being 

11 obligated pursuant to subsection (a) (if any)— 

12 (1) 50 percent shall be credited to the Highway 

13 Trust Fund established under section 9503(a) of the 

14 Internal Revenue Code of 1986, to be made available 

15 without further appropriation; and 

16 (2) 50 percent shall be transferred to the Ad17 ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 

18 for making capitalization grants for State water pol19 lution control revolving funds under section 603 of 

20 the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 

21 1382), to be made available without further appro22 priation. 

23 (c) TIMELY MANNER DEFINED.—In this section, the 

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1 tion with the Comptroller General and the inspector gen2 eral of the relevant agency, with regard to the implementa3 tion of a recommendation from an IG report, that is not 

4 an exception under section 2(b)— 

5 (1) 30 percent completion of such recommenda6 tion within the first year following the submission of 

7 the IG report; and 

8 (2) 70 percent completion of such recommenda9 tion within the second year following the submission 

10 of the IG report. 

11 SEC. 4. USE OF SAVINGS. 

12 Of the savings (if any) from the implementation of 

13 a recommendation from an IG report pursuant to this 

14 Act— 

15 (1) 50 percent shall be credited to the Highway 

16 Trust Fund established under section 9503(a) of the 

17 Internal Revenue Code of 1986, to be made available 

18 without further appropriation; and 

19 (2) 50 percent shall be transferred to the Ad20 ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 

21 for making capitalization grants for State water pol22 lution control revolving funds under section 603 of 

23 the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 

24 1382), to be made available without further appro25 priation. 


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1 SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 

2 In this Act— 

3 (1) the term ‘‘agency’’ has the meaning given 

4 that term in section 551 of title 5, United States 

5 Code; and 

6 (2) the term ‘‘politically-appointed official’’ 

7 means any employee of the Federal Government who 

8 is— 

9 (A) not paid under the General Schedule 

10 (chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code); and 

11 (B) appointed by the President by and 

12 with the advice and consent of the Senate. 

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