Impoundment Control

Comments on the President's Sixth Special Impoundment Message for Fiscal Year 1993 Gao ID: OGC-93-10 August 18, 1993

This letter discusses the status of funds proposed for rescission in the President's sixth special impoundment message. The funds involve programs at the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Justice, and Transportation. The Office of Management and Budget reports that the funds proposed for rescission were not withheld from obligation. After receiving a rescission proposal, Congress has a 45-day period of continuous congressional session in which to act on rescission bills. Otherwise, the funds proposed for rescission must be made available for obligation. For the rescission proposal submitted in the sixth special message, the 45-day period ended on July 31, 1993, without Congress having passed a bill for two of the proposals.

GAO found that the: (1) funds proposed for rescission were not withheld from obligation; and (2) Office of Management and Budget made all funds proposed for rescission available for obligation, since Congress has not passed a rescission bill.



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