Sec. 509. Policy statement on expenditures from agency fees and spending
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The House finds the following: Many Federal agencies and organizations have permanent authority to collect and spend fees and other offsetting collections. The Office of Management and Budget estimates the total amount of offsetting fees and collections to be $513 billion in fiscal year 2017. Agency budget justifications are, in some cases, not fully transparent about the amount of program activity funded through offsetting collections or fees. This lack of transparency prevents effective and accountable Government.
It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that the House should reassert its constitutional prerogative to control Federal spending and exercise rigorous oversight over Federal agencies. Congress should subject all fees paid by the public to Federal agencies to annual appropriations or authorizing legislation and a share of these proceeds should be reserved for taxpayers in the form of deficit reduction.