ommendations upon the policies, laws, and 
programs directly or indirectly affected by 
the recommendations. 
(C) SUPERMAJORITY REQUIREMENT.—The 
Commission may not include a recommendation 
in the report unless inclusion of the rec-
ommendation is approved by at least 6 mem-
bers of the Commission. 
(2) INFORMATION AND JUSTIFICATIONS.—The 
Commission shall include in its report information 
specifying—
(A) the reasons and justifications for the 
recommendations of the Commission; 
(B) to the maximum extent practicable, 
the estimated fiscal, economic, and budgetary 
impact of accepting its recommendations; 
(C) the amount of the projected savings re-
sulting from each of its recommendations; 
(D) all actions, circumstances, and consid-
erations relating to or bearing upon the rec-
ommendations and to the maximum extent 
practicable, the estimated effect of the rec-
ommendations upon the policies, laws and pro-
grams directly or indirectly affected by the rec-
ommendations; and
(E) the specific changes in Federal stat-
utes necessary to implement the recommenda-
tions, including citation of the relevant provi-
sions of existing law. 
(3) SUBMISSION
TO
CONGRESS.—The report 
submitted to the Congress under this subsection 
shall be submitted to the Senate and the House of 
Representatives on the same day, and shall be deliv-
ered to the Secretary of the Senate if the Senate is 
not in session, and to the Clerk of the House of the 
Representatives if the House is not in session. 
(4) FEDERAL
REGISTER.—The report sub-
mitted under this subsection shall be printed in the 
first issue of the Federal Register after such submis-
sion. 
(5) CHANGES
IN
AGENCY
OR
DEPARTMENT 
RECOMMENDATIONS.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the deadline 
in paragraph (1) and to subparagraphs (B) and 
(C) of this paragraph, in making its rec-
ommendations, the Commission may make 
changes in any of the recommendations made 
by a department or agency if the Commission 
determines that such department or agency, in 
treating any matter as an inequitable Federal
subsidy, deviated substantially from the provi-
sions of section 4. 
(B) LIMITATION.—The Commission may 
make a change in the recommendations made 
by a department or agency, only if the Commis-
sion—
(i) makes the determination required 
under subparagraph (B); and 
(ii) conducts a public hearing on the 
Commission’s proposed changes. 
(C) APPLICATION
OF
LIMITATION.—Sub-
paragraph (B) shall apply only to a change by 
the Commission in a department or agency rec-
ommendation that would—
(i) add or delete a program to or 
from, respectively, the list recommended 
for termination; 
(ii) add or delete a program to or 
from, respectively, the list recommended 
for modification; or 
(iii) increase or decrease the extent of 
a recommendation to modify a program, 
included in a department’s or agency’s rec-
ommendation.
(D) 
JUSTIFICATION.—The 
Commission 
shall explain and justify in the report submitted 
to the Congress under this subsection any rec-
ommendation made by the Commission that is 
different from a recommendation made by an 
agency under subsection (a). 
(6) PROVISION OF INFORMATION TO MEMBERS 
OF CONGRESS.—After March 31, 2005, the Commis-
sion shall, upon request, promptly provide to any 
Member of Congress the information used by the 
Commission in making its recommendations. 
(7) 
COMPTROLLER
GENERAL.—The 
Comp-
troller General of the United States shall—
(A) assist the Commission, to the extent 
requested, in the Commission’s review and anal-
ysis of the lists, statements, and recommenda-
tions made by departments and agencies under 
subsection (a); and 
(B) no later than 60 days after April 1, 
2004, or the public release of the President’s 
budget documents in 2004, whichever is earlier, 
submit to the Congress and to the Commission 
a report containing a detailed analysis of the 
list, statements, and recommendations of each 
department or agency.
SEC. 7. CONGRESSIONAL ACTION ON COMMISSION REC-
OMMENDATIONS. 
It is the sense of the Congress that, following submis-
sion of the report of the Program Reform Commission 
under section 6, the House of Representatives and the 
Senate should promptly consider legislation that would 
enact changes in Federal statutes necessary to implement 
the recommendations of the Commission.
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