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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3276
To provide for the establishment of Results Commissions to improve the 
results of executive branch agencies on behalf of the American people. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 14, 2005
Mr. PORTER (for himself, Mr. TOM DAVIS of Virginia, and Mr. BRADY of 
Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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 com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for the establishment of Results Commissions 
to improve the results of executive branch agencies on 
behalf of the American people.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Government Reorga-
nization and Improvement of Performance Act’’. 
SEC. 2. RESULTS COMMISSIONS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSIONS.—
(1) PROPOSAL AND TRANSMITTAL.—The Presi-
dent—
(A) may propose the establishment in the 
executive branch of one or more commissions 
for the purpose of improving the overall effec-
tiveness, efficiency, or accountability of execu-
tive branch operations through reorganization, 
with each such commission being known as a 
‘‘Results Commission’’; and 
(B) may transmit such proposal to Con-
gress for expedited consideration under section 
3. 
(2) REASONS
FOR
ESTABLISHING
RESULTS 
COMMISSIONS.—In each proposal to establish a Re-
sults Commission, the President shall describe the 
agencies or programs being proposed for the Results 
Commission to study. In making a proposal to estab-
lish a Results Commission, the President shall iden-
tify areas where multiple Federal programs have 
similar, related, or overlapping responsibilities that 
are under the jurisdiction of multiple executive 
branch agencies and committees of Congress, and 
areas where reorganization may improve the overall 
effectiveness, efficiency, or accountability of execu-
tive branch operations.
(b) PROCEDURE FOR MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS 
FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN EXECUTIVE BRANCH PERFORM-
ANCE.—
(1) The President may, from time to time in his 
discretion, submit to a Results Commission estab-
lished pursuant to this section one or more specific 
proposals to improve the performance of the execu-
tive branch by reorganizing agencies or programs in 
the areas that the Results Commission is authorized 
to study. 
(2) After receiving a specific proposal from the 
President under paragraph (1), a Results Commis-
sion shall evaluate the proposal and shall provide a 
response to the President on the proposal, including 
any changes that the Commission may wish to rec-
ommend. The Commission may recommend changes 
or additions to the proposal, and shall explain and 
justify any such recommended changes or additions, 
only if the Commission believes that such changes 
are necessary to better accomplish the stated pur-
pose of the President’s reorganization proposal. 
(3) If the President disapproves the rec-
ommendations of the Results Commission, in whole 
or in part, the President may transmit to the Re-
sults Commission the reasons for that disapproval.
The Commission shall then transmit to the Presi-
dent a report responding to the President’s concerns 
and any changes in its recommendations. 
(4) The President may transmit to Congress for 
expedited consideration under section 3 a copy of all 
of the final recommendations of each Results Com-
mission, together with legislation to accomplish those 
recommendations. 
(c) MEMBERSHIP, POWERS, AND
OTHER
MAT-
TERS.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Each Results Commission 
shall be composed of seven members, who shall be 
appointed within 60 days after the date of the enact-
ment of the Act establishing the Commission. 
(2) APPOINTMENTS.—(A) The President shall 
appoint the seven members, who shall serve at the 
pleasure of the President, as follows: 
(i) One in consultation with the majority 
leader of the Senate. 
(ii) One in consultation with the minority 
leader of the Senate. 
(iii) One in consultation with the Speaker 
of the House of Representatives. 
(iv) One in consultation with the minority 
leader of the House of Representatives.
(v) Three other members. 
(B) Any vacancy on a Commission shall be 
filled in the manner in which the original appoint-
ment was made. 
(3) CHAIR
AND
VICE
CHAIR.—The President 
shall designate one member of each Results Commis-
sion to serve as Chair and one member as Vice 
Chair. 
(4) LENGTH
OF
SERVICE.—The members of 
each Results Commission shall serve at the pleasure 
of the President. 
(5) VACANCIES.—Any vacancy on a Results 
Commission shall be filled in the manner in which 
the original appointment was made. 
(6) TERMINATION.—Each Results Commission 
shall cease to exist within nine months after the date 
it commences operations, unless provided otherwise 
in law. 
(7) DUTIES.—Each Results Commission is au-
thorized to—
(A) evaluate the merits of a specific pro-
posal by the President for governmental reorga-
nization; and 
(B) provide views to the President on the 
proposal, including any changes or additions to
the proposal that the Commission may wish to 
recommend. 
(8) POWERS RELATING TO OBTAINING INFOR-
MATION FROM FEDERAL AGENCIES.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Each Results Commis-
sion is authorized to secure directly from any 
executive department, bureau, agency, board, 
commission, office, independent establishment, 
or instrumentality of the United States Govern-
ment, information, suggestions, estimates, and 
statistics for purposes of carrying out its duties. 
Each department, bureau, agency, board, com-
mission, office, independent establishment, or 
instrumentality shall, to the extent authorized 
by law, furnish such information, suggestions, 
estimates, and statistics directly to the Commis-
sion, upon request made by the chair or any 
other member designated by a majority of the 
Commission. 
(B) RECEIPT, HANDLING, STORAGE, AND 
DISSEMINATION.—Information shall be received, 
handled, stored, and disseminated only by mem-
bers of the Commission and its staff consistent 
with all applicable statutes, regulations, and 
Executive orders.
(9) PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MEETINGS.—
(A) PUBLIC
HEARINGS.—Each Results 
Commission shall hold public hearings and 
meetings to the extent appropriate. Any such 
public sessions shall be conducted in a manner 
consistent with the protection of information 
provided to or developed for or by the Commis-
sion as required by applicable law. 
(B) NONAPPLICABILITY OF FEDERAL AD-
VISORY COMMITTEE ACT.—The Federal Advi-
sory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not 
apply to any Results Commission. 
(10) INTERNAL PROCEDURES.—
(A) PROCEEDINGS.—Each Results Com-
mission shall commence operations within 6 
months after the date of enactment of the Act 
establishing the Commission and shall meet pe-
riodically at the call of the Chair. 
(B) QUORUM.—Four members of a Results 
Commission shall constitute a quorum but a 
lesser number may hold hearings. 
(11) PERSONNEL MATTERS.—
(A) TRAVEL EXPENSES.—The members of 
each Results Commission shall be allowed travel 
expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsist-
ence, at rates authorized for employees of agen-
cies under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, 
United States Code, while away from their 
homes or regular places of business in the per-
formance of services for the Commission. 
(B) DIRECTOR.—The Chair of each Re-
sults Commission may, without regard to the 
civil service laws and regulations, appoint and 
terminate a Director for the Commission. The 
Director shall be paid at a rate not to exceed 
the Level II of the Executive Schedule. 
(C) STAFF.—The Director may appoint 
and compensate staff for each Results Commis-
sion in accordance with section 3161 of title 5, 
United States Code. 
(D) APPLICABILITY
OF
CERTAIN
CIVIL 
SERVICE LAWS.—The Director and any staff of 
each Results Commission shall be employees 
under section 2105 of title 5, United States 
Code, for purposes of chapters 63, 81, 83, 84, 
85, 87, 89, and 90 of that title. 
(E) DETAIL
OF
GOVERNMENT
EMPLOY-
EES.—Any Federal Government employee may 
be detailed to the Commission without reim-
bursement, and such detail shall be without
interruption or loss of civil service status or 
privilege. 
(F) PROCUREMENT
OF
TEMPORARY
AND 
INTERMITTENT SERVICES.—The Chair of each 
Results Commission may procure temporary 
and intermittent services under section 3109(b) 
of title 5, United States Code, at rates for indi-
viduals which do not exceed the daily equivalent 
of the annual rate of basic pay prescribed for 
Level II of the Executive Schedule under sec-
tion 5316 of such title. 
(12) OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS.—
(A) POSTAL
AND
PRINTING
SERVICES.—
Each Results Commission may use the United 
States mails and obtain printing and binding 
services in the same manner and under the 
same conditions as other departments and 
agencies of the United States. 
(B) 
ADMINISTRATIVE
SUPPORT
SERV-
ICES.—Upon the request of a Results Commis-
sion, the Administrator of General Services 
shall provide to the Results Commission, on a 
reimbursable basis, the administrative support 
services necessary for the Results Commission 
to carry out its duties.
(C) 
AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIA-
TIONS.—Such sums as may be necessary are 
authorized to be appropriated for the purposes 
of carrying out the duties of each Results Com-
mission. Such funds shall remain available until 
expended. 
(d) EXPEDITED CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW PROCE-
DURES.—In reviewing proposals by the President to estab-
lish a Results Commission and in reviewing proposals by 
the President to implement reorganizations recommended 
by a Results Commission, the Congress shall follow the 
expedited review procedures set forth in section 3 of this 
Act. 
SEC. 3. EXPEDITED CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW PROCE-
DURES. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—
(1) RESOLUTION OF APPROVAL.—
(A) IN
GENERAL.—For the purposes of 
this section, the term ‘‘resolution’’ means only 
a joint resolution described in either subpara-
graph (B) or (C). 
(B) JOINT RESOLUTION RELATING TO ES-
TABLISHING RESULTS COMMISSION.—For pur-
poses of subparagraph (A), a joint resolution
described in this subparagraph is a joint resolu-
tion—
(i) which does not have a preamble; 
(ii) the title of which is as follows: 
‘‘Joint resolution establishing the Results 
Commission proposed by the President 
under the Government Reorganization and 
Improvement of Performance Act’’; 
(iii) the matter after the resolving 
clause of which is as follows: ‘‘That Con-
gress establishes a Results Commission 
proposed by the President, as follows, that 
was transmitted on llll under the 
Government Reorganization and Improve-
ment of Performance Act:’’, the blank 
space being filled in with the appropriate 
date; and 
(iv) the remaining text of which con-
sists of the complete text of a legislative 
proposal transmitted by the President 
under section 2(a)(1). 
(C) JOINT RESOLUTION RELATING TO AP-
PROVING
REORGANIZATION
PROPOSAL.—For 
purposes of subparagraph (A), a joint resolu-
tion described in this subparagraph is a joint 
resolution—
(i) which does not have a preamble; 
(ii) the title of which is as follows: 
‘‘Joint resolution approving the reorganiza-
tion proposals of the President under the 
Government Reorganization and Improve-
ment of Performance Act’’; 
(iii) the matter after the resolving 
clause of which is as follows: ‘‘That Con-
gress approves the reorganization pro-
posals of the President, as follows, that 
were transmitted on llll under the 
Government Reorganization and Improve-
ment of Performance Act:’’, the blank 
space being filled in with the appropriate 
date; and 
(iv) the remaining text of which con-
sists of the complete text of a legislative 
proposal transmitted by the President 
under section 2(b)(4). 
(2) LEGISLATIVE
DAY.—For the purposes of 
this section, the term ‘‘legislative day’’ refers to any 
day on which either House of Congress is in session.
(b) INTRODUCTION AND REFERENCE OF RESOLU-
TION.—
(1) Not later than the first day of session fol-
lowing the day on which a resolution is transmitted 
to Congress under section (2)(a)(1) or (2)(b)(4), the 
resolution shall be introduced (by request)—
(A) in the House of Representatives by the 
chairman of the Committee on Government Re-
form, or by a member or members of the House 
designated by such chairman; and 
(B) in the Senate by the chairman of the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs, or by a member of members of 
the Senate designated by such chairman. 
(2) A resolution with respect to a Results Com-
mission or a reorganization proposal shall be re-
ferred to the Committee on Government Reform of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of 
the Senate (and all resolutions with respect to the 
same commission or proposal shall be referred to the 
same committee) by the Speaker of the House or the 
President of the Senate, as the case may be. The 
committee shall makes its recommendations to the 
House of Representatives or the Senate, respectively,
within 75 calendar days of continuous session of 
Congress following the date of such resolutions’s in-
troduction. 
(c) EXPEDITED PROCEDURES RELATING
TO DIS-
CHARGE
OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERING RESOLUTION, 
PROCEDURE AFTER REPORT OR DISCHARGE OF COM-
MITTEE, DEBATE, AND VOTE ON FINAL PASSAGE.—Sec-
tions 911 and 912 of title 5, United States Code, shall 
apply to a resolution introduced pursuant to subsection 
(b)(1). In applying such sections—
(1) the term ‘‘resolution’’ means a resolution 
described in subparagraph (B) or (C) of subsection 
(a)(1) of this section; and 
(2) the term ‘‘reorganization plan’’ means a leg-
islative proposal to establish a Results Commission 
transmitted under section 2(a)(1), or a reorganiza-
tion proposal transmitted under section 2(b)(4). 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE, PUBLICATION, EFFECT ON 
OTHER LAWS, PENDING LEGAL PROCEEDINGS, AND UN-
EXPENDED APPROPRIATIONS.—Sections 906 and 907 of 
title 5, United States Code, shall apply to a resolution in-
troduced pursuant to subsection (b)(1). In applying such 
sections—
(1) the term ‘‘resolution’’ means a resolution 
described in subparagraph (C) of subsection (a)(1) 
of this section; and 
(2) the term ‘‘reorganization plan’’ means a re-
organization proposal transmitted under section 
2(b)(4).
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