Premise: In addition to the arguments previously advanced by the Vice Presidentas representatives and addressed in our June 22 letter to the Counsel to the Vice President (see Enclosure 1), the Vice Presidentas August 2 letter to the Congress asserts that the study is not authorized by statute because GAO is limited to looking at the aresults- of programs and that GAO does not have a right of access to documents because the Vice President is not included under the term aagency- used in GAOas statute.

Hypothesis: The Vice President's representatives went further and demanded an apology from the GAO.
Relation: neutral