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PUBLIC LAW 91-510-OCT. 26, 1970

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A S S I G N M E N T S OF E M P L O Y E E S OF GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE TO DUTY W I T H COMMITTEE S OF CONGRESS

235. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the H^U*^'^' °"^-y^^'^ Comptroller General may not assign or detail any employee of the General Accounting Office to full-time duty on a continuing basis with any committee of the Senate or House of Representatives or with any joint committee of Congress for any period of more than one year. (b) The Comptroller General shall include in his annual report to Annual report to SEC.

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the Congress the following information— (1) the name of each employee assigned or detailed to any committee of the Senate or House of Representatives or any joint committee of Congress; (2) the name of each committee or joint committee to which each such employee is assigned or detailed; (3) the length of the period of such assignment or detail of such employee; (4) a statement as to whether such assignment or detail is finished or is currently in effect; and (5) the pay of such employee, his travel, subsistence, and other expenses, the agency contributions for his retirement and life and health insurance benefits, and other necessary monetary expenses for personnel benefits on account of such employee, paid out of appropriations available to the General Accounting Office during the period of the assignment or detail of such employee, or, if such assignment or detail is currently in effect, during that part of the period of such assignment or detail which has been completed. AGENCY

REPORTS

SEC. 236. Whenever the General Accounting Office has made a report which contains recommendations to the head of any Federal agency, such agency shall— (1) not later than sixty days after the date of such report, submit a written statement to the Committees on Government Operations of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the action taken by such agency with respect to such recommendations; and (2) in connection with the first request for appropriations for that agency submitted to the Congress more than sixty days after the date of such report, submit a written statement to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the action taken by such agency with respect to such recommendations. PART 4 — THE APPROPRIATIONS

PROCESS

RULEMAKING POWER OF SENATE AND HOUSE

SEC. 241. The following sections of this Part are enacted by the Congress— (1) insofar as applicable to the Senate, as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and, to the extent so applicable, those sections are deemed a part of the Standing Rules of the Senate, superseding other individual rules of the Senate only to the extent that those sections are inconsistent with those other individual Senate rules, subject to and with full recognition of the power of the Senate to enact or change any rule of the Senate at any time in its exercise of its constitutional right to determine the rules of its proceedings; and

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