COST Savings Resolution

Bill: 113-hres-160
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gardner, Cory [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2013-04-15
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional committees

Congressional oversight

Executive agency funding and structure

Government studies and investigations

House of Representatives

Legislative rules and procedure
Latest action: action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-04-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Congressional Oversight to Start Taxpayer Savings Resolution or COST Savings Resolution - Amends Rule X (Organization of Committees) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require each standing committee (except the Committee on Appropriations) with the proper jurisdiction, after the Comptroller General reports annually to Congress on federal programs, agencies, offices, and initiatives with duplicative goals and activities, to conduct hearings on the report's recommendations for consolidation and elimination of the program or agency.</p>

tv_txt: IV 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 160 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 15, 2013 Mr. Gardner (for himself, Mr. Peters of Michigan , Mr. Flores , Mr. Renacci , Mr. Hanna , Mr. Carney , Mr. Coffman , Mr. Barber , Mr. Delaney , Mr. Himes , Mr. Polis , Mrs. Hartzler , Mr. Terry , Mr. Lankford , Mr. Gerlach , Mr. Benishek , Mr. Yoder , and Mr. Lance ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules RESOLUTION Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require authorizing committees to hold annual hearings on GAO investigative reports on the identification, consolidation, and elimination of duplicative Government programs.

1. Short title This resolution may be cited as the Congressional Oversight to Start Taxpayer Savings Resolution or the COST Savings Resolution . 2. Requiring committee hearings on gao investigative reports Clause 2 of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (f) Within 90 calendar days after the Comptroller General transmits each annual report to Congress identifying programs, agencies, offices, and initiatives with duplicative goals and activities within the Government pursuant to section 21 of the joint resolution of February 12, 2010, increasing the statutory limit on the public debt ( Public Law 111–139 ), each standing committee (except the Committee on Appropriations) with jurisdiction over any such program or agency covered by that report shall conduct hearings on the recommendations for consolidation and elimination of such program or agency. .