HRES 142
112th Congress
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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.
Introduced: March 3, 2011
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Mar 3, 2011
Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
Mar 3, 2011
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
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.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
Committees of jurisdiction
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