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Government Operations: H.R. 6225

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 20, 1984
Report No. 125204
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Summary:

GAO discussed H.R. 6225, a bill to validate all the currently existing government reorganization plans. GAO strongly endorses the bill and considers legislation of this kind to be both timely and necessary. Reorganization Plans contain a congressional control mechanism, the legislative veto. Recently, the Supreme Court declared these vetoes generally to be unconstitutional, which has called into question the validity of some 200 statutes. Legislation is needed to provide the President with new reorganization authority which will not be subject to invalidation. Confusion could be caused in all three government branches if effective comprehensive ratification of currently existing reorganization plans is not undertaken.

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