Sec. 2. Findings; sense of Congress
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Congress finds that— 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 $531,000,000,000 in financial benefits for the Federal Government; the 2022 report entitled Additional Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Billions of Dollars in Financial Benefits and numbered GAO–22–105301 identified 94 new actions that Congress or the executive branch can take— to improve efficiency and effectiveness across the Federal Government; and to save potentially tens of billions of dollars; the financial benefits described in paragraph
(2)cannot be realized without full implementation of the actions and recommendations set forth by the Comptroller General of the United States in the report described in that paragraph; and of the 94 new actions described in that report, several require legislation to be fully implemented, including recommendations— to improve coordination among 200 Federal efforts to address diet-related chronic illnesses; to encourage the use of lower-risk alternatives to radiation technology; and to clarify statutory authorities for low-level nuclear waste disposal to make that disposal more cost-effective. 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 described in subsection (a)(1) 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 recommendations for action presented in the 2022 report described in subsection (a)(2).
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