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S. Res. 102 114th Congress Senate

COST Savings Resolution

Official title: A resolution requiring authorizing committees to hold annual hearings on Government Accountability Office investigative reports on the identification, consolid… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A resolution requiring authorizing committees to hold annual hearings on Government Accountability Office investigative reports on the identification, consolidation, and elimination of duplicative Government programs.

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)

 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.

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Peters, Gary C.
Michigan · Mar 17, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. Res. 102: COST Savings Resolution. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-SRES-102/
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"S. Res. 102: COST Savings Resolution." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-SRES-102/.
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S. Res. 102, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-SRES-102/.
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