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COST Savings Resolution

Introduced: March 17, 2015 See on congress.gov
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Referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1588)
Mar 17, 2015
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Congressional Oversight to Start Taxpayer Savings Resolution or the COST Savings Resolution

Requires each standing committee of the Senate (except the Committee on Appropriations) with 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, agency, office, or initiative.

Requires each standing committee of the Senate (except the Committee on Appropriations) with jurisdiction over any agency or program area on a High Risk List published by the Comptroller General to conduct hearings on the vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement, or need for transformation, of the agency or program area.

Authorizes committees to hold joint hearings for any program, agency, office, initiative, or program area over which more than one standing committee has jurisdiction.

What's happening now March 17, 2015

Referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1588)

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1