Sec. 2. Findings; sense of Congress
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Congress makes the following findings: The annual reports prepared by the Comptroller General of the United States under section 21 of the Joint Resolution entitled Joint Resolution increasing the statutory limit on the public debt , approved February 12, 2010 ( 31 U.S.C. 712 note; Public Law 111–139 ), have produced approximately $429,000,000,000 in financial benefits for the Federal Government. 2021 marks the 100-year anniversary of the creation of the Government Accountability Office and its contributions to improving the management and fiscal responsibility of the Federal Government.
The 2021 report entitled Additional Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Billions in Financial Benefits (GAO–21–455SP) identified 112 new actions that Congress or the executive branch can take to improve efficiency and effectiveness across the Federal Government, and potentially to save tens of billions of dollars. Those financial benefits cannot be realized without full implementation of the actions and recommendations set forth by the Comptroller General of the United States.
Of the 112 new actions, one requires legislation to be fully implemented, and it concerns adjusting the rate calculation for paying military housing contractors. It is the sense of Congress that— it is the responsibility of Congress and the executive branch to take action to implement recommendations made in the annual reports of the Government Accountability Office on reducing duplication in Federal programs to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars; legislation and adequate resources are needed to ensure that all potential financial benefits are realized from the implementation of those recommendations; and while some recommendations for congressional action from previous reports have been resolved, Congress must continue to pursue the recommendations that have gone unaddressed in addition to the new recommendation for action presented in the 2021 report.
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