Legislative Savings: Hearings Before the Task Force on Legislative Savings of the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, July 24 and 26, 1979U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... potential savings and merit to be included in the first resolution next year . With that , I would like to welcome to our hearings as the first witness , Dr. Alice Rivlin , Director of the Congressional Budget Office , someone I have ...
... potential savings and merit to be included in the first resolution next year . With that , I would like to welcome to our hearings as the first witness , Dr. Alice Rivlin , Director of the Congressional Budget Office , someone I have ...
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... potential legisla- tive savings , some that have been on the task force agenda and some new ones . THE IMPORTANCE OF LEGISLATIVE SAVINGS Each year an ever - greater percentage of the Federal budget is a direct result of decisions made ...
... potential legisla- tive savings , some that have been on the task force agenda and some new ones . THE IMPORTANCE OF LEGISLATIVE SAVINGS Each year an ever - greater percentage of the Federal budget is a direct result of decisions made ...
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... POTENTIAL FOR LEGISLATIVE SAVINGS The Congressional Budget Office has reviewed a number of areas in which legislative savings might be possible . A first area is reduc- ing the effect of inflation on Federal outlays , particularly ...
... POTENTIAL FOR LEGISLATIVE SAVINGS The Congressional Budget Office has reviewed a number of areas in which legislative savings might be possible . A first area is reduc- ing the effect of inflation on Federal outlays , particularly ...
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... potential savings on the tax side of the budget . Modification or elimination of tax expenditures is a third area of savings . Direct spending programs and tax expenditures should be reviewed together in any assessment of the ...
... potential savings on the tax side of the budget . Modification or elimination of tax expenditures is a third area of savings . Direct spending programs and tax expenditures should be reviewed together in any assessment of the ...
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... potential savings from such changes could be as much as $ 1 billion over a 5 - year period . ASSISTED HOUSING Previously , CBO has discussed proposals to increase the rent - to- income ratio - which would increase the amount renters pay ...
... potential savings from such changes could be as much as $ 1 billion over a 5 - year period . ASSISTED HOUSING Previously , CBO has discussed proposals to increase the rent - to- income ratio - which would increase the amount renters pay ...
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Page 60 - ... annually and has an inflationary effect on the areas covered by inaccurate wage rates and the economy as a whole.
Page 60 - GAO believes make continuation of the act unnecessary; (2) after nearly 50 years, the Department of Labor has yet to develop an effective program to issue and maintain accurate wage determinations, and it may be impractical to ever do so...
Page 56 - Office and Civil Service For Federal blue-collar employee pay-setting procedures to achieve comparability in both pay and benefits with the private sector, legislation is needed to revise —the...
Page 85 - GAO recommended that the Congress amend the law to eliminate the mandatory requirement for secondary treatment of discharges to fresh water...
Page 66 - Authorize the establishment of a method of reimbursement under which the providing Federal hospital would receive any revenues received to offset any expenses incurred. — Assign to the Office of Management and Budget the responsibility to (1) coordinate the implementation of an effective interagency Federal medical resources sharing program and (2) report annually to the Congress concerning the progress being made toward increased sharing of these resources.
Page 147 - Acts; and (C) to make payments (including loans and grants), the budget authority for which is not provided for in advance by appropriation Acts, to any person or government if, under the provisions of the law containing such authority, the United States is obligated to make such payments to persons or governments who meet the requirements established by such law.
Page 36 - Chair relating to the application of the rules of the House of Representatives or the Senate, as the case may be, to the procedure relating to any resolution of disapproval shall be decided without debate.
Page 75 - GAO recommended be developed by the executive branch, adopt a uniform definition of the term "needy...
Page 64 - Houses passed provisions in 1978 which would have implemented this recommendation but the 95th Congress adjourned before the bills containing the provision went to a conference committee. The Congressional Budget Office estimated savings .at the Federal level of $16 million in 1979 increasing to $53.1 million in 1981 if competitive bidding for laboratory services is authorized under Medicaid. In January 1979, HEW estimated savings of $5 million per year for just eyeglasses and hearing aids when it...
Page 148 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I will be happy to try to respond to any of your questions.