Sunset Act of 1979: Hearings Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session on S. 2 ... and S. 1304 ....

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979 - 888 pages

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Page 614 - tax expenditures" means those revenue losses attributable to provisions of the Federal tax laws which allow a special exclusion, exemption, or deduction from gross income or which provide a special credit, a preferential rate of tax, or a deferral of tax liability; and the term "tax expenditures budget" means an enumeration of such tax expenditures.
Page 818 - House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.
Page 832 - Representatives shall make a continuing review of the activities of each advisory committee under its jurisdiction to determine whether such advisory committee should be abolished or merged with any other advisory committee, whether the responsibilities of such advisory committee should be revised, and whether such advisory committee performs a necessary function not already being performed.
Page 824 - Representatives shall exercise continuous watchfulness of the execution by the administrative agencies concerned of any laws, the subject matter of which is within the jurisdiction of such committee; and, for that purpose, shall study all pertinent reports and data submitted to the Congress by the agencies in the executive branch of the Government.
Page 374 - Program means an organized set of activities directed toward a common purpose, objective, or goal undertaken or proposed by an agency in order to carry out responsibilities assigned to it.
Page 862 - Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier, and the Great Society, the distribution of the immense resources of this society is at its most irrational, its most wasteful?
Page 197 - The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of this Nation, in fulfillment of its special responsibilities and legal obligation to the American Indian people, to meet the national goal of providing the highest possible health status to Indians and to provide existing Indian health services with all resources necessary to effect that policy.
Page 824 - SEC. 204. (a) The Comptroller General shall review and analyze the results of Government programs and activities carried on under existing law, including the making of cost benefit studies...
Page 681 - Act of 1971, the Tax Reduction Act of 1975, and the Tax Reform Act of 1976...
Page 614 - The following recommendation has a firm foundation in the general research findings of the Office of Management and Budget, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.

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