Government Performance and Results Act: Overview of Associated Provisions in the 106th Congress

Government Performance and Results Act: Overview of Associated Provisions in the 106th Congress

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Government Performance and Results Act:
Overview of Associated Provisions in the
106th Congress
December 20, 2002
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Government Performance and Results Act: Overview of
Associated Provisions in the 106th Congress
Summary
The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (P. L. 103-62, known
as GPRA, or the Results Act) established a new framework for performance
management and budgeting in federal agencies. In complying with GPRA, agencies
must set goals, devise performance measures, and assess results achieved. This
report identifies and analyzes provisions in public laws and committee reports from
the 106th Congress (1999-2000) relating to GPRA and its implementation, including
comparisons to similar provisions in the 104th and 105th Congresses. The purpose of
these studies is to review ways in which Congress and its committees engage in
oversight of GPRA, and, more generally, monitor implementation efforts by the
executive branch agencies.
Online databases were used to identify language of potential interest in
committee reports and in the public laws from the 106th Congress. The resulting
electronic files were examined and pruned, with the remaining relevant excerpts
captured for further analysis.* This approach covered specific citations to GPRA,
as well as provisions that are or might be deemed associated with GPRA, such as
performance measures and strategic plans. The research identified 42 public laws
from the 106th Congress containing statutory language relating to GPRA and
performance measurement. Two of these laws were omnibus measures containing
GPRA-associated provisions from 10 separate bills, arguably better counted as 10
items rather than two, for a total of 50 enacted measures from the 106th Congress
with GPRA-related provisions. Previous CRS studies identified 14 public laws with
performance-related provisions enacted during the 104th Congress, and 28 in the
105th. Although the rate of increase of 100% from the 104th to the 105th in the
number of public laws with GPRA-associated provisions was not quite sustained, the
rate of increase from the 105th to the 106th was significant at almost 79%.
In addition to statutes with GPRA-associated provisions, a search of committee
reports identified 24 additional public laws from the 106th Congress that contained
GPRA-associated passages in accompanying reports, compared with 17 laws so
identified in the 105th. Thus a total of 74 laws enacted in the 106th Congress were
determined to have GPRA-relevant provisions in statutory language or in committee
report language, compared with a total of 45 public laws from the 105th Congress
with GPRA-relevant provisions in statute or accompanying reports.
Congressional efforts to oversee GPRA implementation continued in the 107th
Congress. Moreover, the inclusion of budget and performance integration as a key
initiative in the President’s Management Agenda arguably has increased attention to
GPRA-related issues in the executive branch. This report, with its focus on the 106th
Congress, will not be updated, but other CRS products on GPRA and performance
management and budgeting will be revised and expanded as events warrant.
*Genevieve Knezo, Resources, Science, and Industry Division, participated equally with the
author in this phase of the research, and her contributions are gratefully acknowledged.

Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Overview of Provisions in 106th Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
References to GPRA and Related Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Examples of References to GPRA in Public Laws
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Examples of References to GPRA in Committee Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Appropriations reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Authorization and oversight reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Afterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Appendix A: Laws from the 106th Congress Identified with
GPRA-Associated Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Appendix B: Committee Reports
in the 106th Congress Identified
with GPRA-Related Passages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
House Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Senate Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
List of Tables
Table 1. Instances of 106th Congress Committee Reports with
GPRA-Associated Passages by House Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Table 2. Instances of 106th Congress Committee Reports with
GPRA-Associated Passages by Senate Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Table 3. House Reports Accompanying Enacted Measures
Identified with Performance Measure Features or GPRA-Associated
Passages, from 104th, 105th and 106th Congresses, by House Committee . . 10
Table 4. Senate Reports Accompanying Enacted Measures Identified
with Performance Measure Features or GPRA-Associated Passages,
from 104th, 105th and 106th Congresses, by Senate Committee . . . . . . . . . . 11
Table 5. GPRA-Associated Provisions in the106th Congress: References
to the Results Act and Related Documentationa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
This report was prepared at the request of Members of Congress.

Government Performance and Results Act:
Overview of Associated Provisions in the
106th Congress
Introduction
The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (known as GPRA, or the
Results Act)1 sought to promote greater efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability
in federal spending by establishing a new framework for performance management
and budgeting in federal agencies. GPRA establishes three types of ongoing
planning, evaluation, and reporting requirements for executive branch agencies:
strategic plans (covering 6 years but to be revised at least every 3years), annual
performance plans, and annual reports on program performance. In complying with
GPRA, agencies must set goals, devise performance measures, and then assess results
achieved.
GPRA joined a number of other budget and financial management reform laws
enacted in the last 24 years that were designed to upgrade existing procedures or to
provide new mechanisms for managing government operations and improving
accountability. Important new roles were established by the Inspector General Act
of 1978 and the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act of 1990. The Government
Management and Reform Act of 1994 and the Federal Financial Management
Improvement Act of 1996 contained important amendments to the CFO Act.2 In
addition to their impact on executive management and accountability, these statutes
provide new or enhanced data and information about federal programs and
performance. In turn, they establish new mechanisms and means for congressional
oversight, or “the review, monitoring, and supervision of the implementation of
public policy.”3
The framework created by the Results Act might contribute to several purposes
which congressional oversight of the executive branch is designed to fulfill. For
example, reports to Congress pursuant to GPRA arguably can facilitate evaluation
of program performance; lead to improvements in the efficiency, effectiveness, and
1P.L. 103-62, 107 Stat. 285, 31 U.S.C. 1115 note. For background on the law, see CRS
Report RS20257, Government Performance and Results Act: Brief History and
Implementation Activities, by Genevieve Knezo; and CRS Report RS20938, Performance
Management and Budgeting: Benchmarks and Recent Developments, by Virginia
McMurtry.
2For discussion of these laws, see CRS Report RL30895, General Management Laws: A
Selective Compendium–107th Congress.
3 CRS Report RL30240, Congressional Oversight Manual.

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economy of governmental operations; help to assess the ability of agencies to manage
and carry out program objectives; and assist in reviewing and determining federal
financial priorities.4
In terms of GPRA, congressional oversight is essential not only to foster
successful implementation of the Act itself, but also to make certain that Congress
reaps its expected benefits.5 The importance of GPRA for all types of congressional
committees was alluded to by then Comptroller General Charles Bowsher in 1996
testimony: “Authorization, appropriation, budget and oversight committees all have
key interests in ensuring that GPRA is successful, because once fully implemented,
it should provide valuable data to help inform the decisions that each committee must
make.”6
Progress in GPRA implementation has proved uneven to date. Some agencies
have yet to define fully their goals, program objectives, and expected outcomes and
results, and to develop appropriate measures to gauge their attainment, in accordance
with GPRA standards. Concerns have been expressed. about the costs and benefits
of developing new results-oriented performance measurement systems, about the lack
of interagency coordination to use similar measures to compare similar programs, and
about the need to link “Results Act” implementation to the everyday work of
program managers.
Supporters of GPRA contend that performance management and budgeting are
feasible, and assert that accountability and congressional control over the budget will
increase as Congress gains experience in using objective, results-oriented information
to oversee agencies and develop budget priorities. However, others are concerned
that GPRA might become a futile and wasteful paperwork exercise, with its
documentation largely ignored on Capitol Hill.
This report identifies and analyzes provisions in public laws and committee
reports from the 106th Congress relating to GPRA and its implementation.7 This
work is a sequel to previous CRS studies examining such provisions in public laws
and their associated reports from the 105th Congress,8 and in statutes enacted during
4See ibid. for a review of oversight, its meaning, characteristics, and techniques; for
elaboration on these and other purposes of oversight, see pp. 1-4.
5For further discussion of GPRA and oversight, see CRS Report 97-382, Government
Performance and Results Act: Implications for Congressional Oversight, by (name redact
ed) and (name redacted).
6See Performance-Based Government: Examining the Government Performance and
Results Act of 1993. Joint hearing, 1996, p. 7.
7In this discussion the term “provisions” is sometimes used in a broad sense to cover
instances of GPRA-related language in committee reports, as well as more formal
“provisions” in public laws, in order to avoid unduly convoluted phraseology. Generally,
however, such GPRA-relevant elements from committee reports are referred to as
“passages.”
8U.S. Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, Performance Measure
(continued...)

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the 104th Congress.9 The purpose of these studies is to review ways in which
Congress and its committees engage in oversight of GPRA, and, more generally,
monitor implementation efforts by the executive branch agencies.
This report provides an overview analysis of data collected by CRS on
congressional efforts to monitor the implementation of the Government Performance
and Results Act during the 106th Congress (1999-2000). The approach entails an
assessment of GPRA-related provisions identified in an electronic search of public
laws and committee reports. It should be noted that this approach covered specific
citations to GPRA, as well as provisions that are or might be deemed associated with
GPRA, such as performance measures and strategic plans. After providing an
overview of the data, this report examines specific references from the 106th
Congress to GPRA and its related documentation.
Methodology
Online databases were used to identify legislative language of potential interest
in committee reports and in the public laws enacted by the 106th Congress. Searching
the LEXIS/NEXIS public law and committee reports libraries created an initial list
of “hits” for the term “performance.” Additional searches were executed to identify
other possible variations of language in statutes referencing the Government
Performance and Results Act (e.g. “Results Act,” and “GPRA”). For this review of
the 106th Congress the additional search term of “strategic plan” also was used.
The resulting electronic files of excerpts were examined to establish the
relevance of each occurrence of the keyword terms. Although it was not necessary
that the Results Act, or GPRA, be cited explicitly, the identified provisions had to
be in accord with the law’s requirements, or at least allude to performance
measurement.10
For the 105th Congress, excerpts from committee report language otherwise
meeting the criteria for inclusion, but accompanying a bill that was not enacted into
8(...continued)
Provisions in the 105th Congress: Analysis of a Selected Compilation, by (name redact
ed) and (name redacted), CRS ge
neral distribution memorandum (Washington:
Jan. 7, 1999). 49 p.
9CRS Report 97-1059, Government Performance and Results Act: Performance-related
Requirements Included in Laws and in Committee Report Language During the 104th
Congress, by (name redacted) and William Heniff.
10For example, language referring to “performance” of an artistic work was clearly not
relevant to our interest, whereas language concerning technical performance requirements
for facilities or equipment might appear less clear-cut, but was generally excluded. This
pruning of the tentative listing of identified examples, through assessments by the analysts,
eliminated more than a third of the hits from the original computer search. Relevant excerpts
then were captured in electronic format for further analysis. Genevieve Knezo, Resources,
Science, and Industry Division, participated equally with the author in this phase of the
research, and her contributions are gratefully acknowledged.

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law, were excluded from further consideration. Also excluded were references to
GPRA or to performance measures in oversight reports not attached to any
legislation. The CRS review of the 106th Congress is more comprehensive than were
the previous efforts in that contents from all committee reports were examined.
Committee reports searched for the 106th Congress included reports accompanying
legislation enacted or vetoed, legislative reports accompanying bills that received
committee action in at least one chamber, but did not become public law, as well as
oversight reports.
In some cases, there were segments relevant to performance measures in the
committee report(s), but not in the statutory language itself. Where language in a
committee report simply repeated bill language or reflected changes in current law
that would occur with enactment, the passages from the report generally were not
included in this analysis. Additional caveats should be mentioned. First, committee
report language does not reflect the full extent to which committees provided
commentary or guidance on performance measures. Committee hearings doubtless
contain additional references, and, particularly during development and revision of
the strategic plans, informal meetings of congressional and agency staff often occur.
Second, report language as well as public laws may include provisions relevant to
GPRA implementation; however, unless GPRA or “performance” or “strategic plan”
were mentioned, the provision was not captured in this survey.11
As was done in the previous CRS studies of performance measure provisions,
for the purposes of facilitating the analysis of provisions identified in public laws and
reports from the 106th Congress, a listing of descriptive attributes was established.12
Items in the listing were suggested by the excerpts of legislative language selected,
and were intended to identify similar types of language (albeit not necessarily
identical). Moreover, these categories were not designed to be mutually exclusive;
a given provision could be judged to reflect more than one category. Nor are the
categories necessarily of equal significance; some appear to be more important than
others. The excerpted passages were then assigned to these categories, grouped under
five broad headings, which included: references to GPRA and related documents,
congressional guidance to agency implementation of performance measures,
congressional instruction to recipients of federal funding about GPRA application,
GPRA and budget matters, and other performance-related components. These five
headings then provided the framework for the discussion and analysis of the
provisions. In addition to an overview of GPRA-associated provisions in the 106th
Congress, this report covers the first heading, references to GPRA and related
documents, while others are to be addressed subsequently in a companion report.
Quantitative analysis was limited to counts of whether certain categories apply
to the GPRA-associated provisions identified in laws and reports from the 106th
Congress. For example, the number of laws and reports that explicitly mention the
11Committees may choose to issue findings relevant to GPRA as a committee print or in
some other form of documentation, rather than as a formal committee report. However, the
electronic data files searched in this study covered only committee reports.
12The listing of categories used in the 105th Congress provided the starting point for the
analysis of provisions in the 106th as well, but some modifications were subsequently made.

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Results Act was indicated. Most of the categories, however, do not lend themselves
to quantitative analysis, because the ways in which they apply in different cases are
not equivalent. In addition, quantitative analysis of categories that are not analogous
cannot be meaningfully compared. A category was counted only once for a given law
or report to which it applied. For example, if one report mentioned GPRA 10 times
and another only once, they were treated as two occurrences, not 11. The use of this
conservative approach reduces the risk of artificially inflating the significance of the
occurrences. The numbers referred to in the subsequent discussion were derived by
creating an Access database of the GPRA-related passages and their attributes.13
Another caveat mentioned originally in the report for the 104th Congress bears
repeating, but arguably now may be receding as a concern: “While a number of
committee reports contain performance-oriented language, it is not possible to
determine if this is a change from previous Congresses. Earlier laws and committee
reports, perhaps even predating 1993, may have included requirements for agencies
to provide performance-related data.”14 However, without the availability of data
over a longer period, particularly some benchmarks for the situation before enactment
of GPRA, conclusions based on apparent trends over time, such as changes in the
frequency of including provisions requiring performance information or in the types
of such provisions, remain less than certain.
Overview of Provisions in 106th Congress
The research identified 42 relevant public laws from the 106th Congress
containing statutory language relating to GPRA and performance measures (see
listing in Appendix A). Two of these laws were omnibus measures; the Consolidated
Appropriations Act for FY2000 contained GPRA-associated provisions from six
originally free-standing bills, while the Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2001
incorporated relevant provisions from four measures, so arguably P. L. 106-113 and
P.L. 106-554 should be counted as constituting 10 items rather than two, for a total
of 50 enacted measures from the 106th Congress with explicit GPRA or GPRA-
related provisions.15
Previous CRS studies identified 14 public laws with performance-related
provisions enacted during the 104th Congress, and 28 in the 105th. While the rate of
13The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Clay Wellborn and Kevin Gates in
creating the Access database and producing the counts and cross- tabulations needed for the
analysis of GRPA-related provisions.
14CRS Report 97-1059, op. cit., p. 3.
15However, four of these public laws included reference to a”strategic plan” but not to
“performance” or directly to GPRA. Since “strategic plan” was not used as a search term
in the CRS studies of previous Congresses, for purposes of comparison it could be argued
that it is more accurate to exclude the latter four, and use the figure of 46 laws with
performance measure provisions in the 106th Congress. However, since the figures on
occurrences in the 106th Congress have relevance aside from comparisons with previous
Congresses, it was decided to use the adjusted figure of 50 public laws from the 106th
Congress identified with GPRA-associated provisions.

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increase of 100% from the 104th to the 105th in the number of public laws with
GPRA-associated provisions was not quite sustained, the rate of increase from the
105th to the 106th was rather convincing at almost 79%.
In addition to statutes with GPRA-associated provisions, a search of committee
reports identified 24 more public laws from the 106th Congress that contained GPRA-
associated passages in accompanying reports (from the House, Senate, or conference
committees). So a total of 74 laws in the 106th Congress were acknowledged to have
relevant provisions in statute, or GPRA-related passages in accompanying committee
reports. In comparison, a total of 45 public laws from the 105th Congress had GPRA-
related provisions; 28 of these contained statutory provisions, while the remaining
17 had relevant passages in accompanying reports.
In many instances a single public law had more than one accompanying report
with relevant passages. For the 106th Congress, the study identified a total of 118
reports with GPRA-associated passages accompanying bills passed by both the
House and Senate and either enacted into law or vetoed by the President.16 Of the 118
reports, 52 came from House committees, 38 from Senate committees, and 28 from
conference committees.
As noted above in the methodology discussion, CRS examination of committee
reports from the 106th Congress was more comprehensive than in previous studies of
performance measurement provisions. The search of committee reports for the 106th
Congress included legislative reports accompanying bills that received committee
action in at least one chamber, but were not necessarily enacted, as well as oversight
reports. With this expanded purview, 87 additional reports with GPRA-associated
passages were identified (52 from House committees and 35 from Senate
committees), for a grand total of 205 reports from the 106th Congress with relevant
passages. Appendix B provides a listing of the reports.
The 205 reports containing GPRA-associated passages in the 106th Congress
included 28 from conference committees, and a total of 104 from House committees
and 73 from Senate committees (see Tables 1 and 2). In the House 18 of the 20
committees were included, while in the Senate 15 of the 20 committees were
represented. However, in both chambers the committees with the most reports
identified with GPRA-associated passages were the appropriations committees: 19
reports, or 14% of all the Senate reports, came from the Senate Appropriations
Committee, and 23 reports, or 24% of all the House reports with relevant passages,
came from the House Appropriations Committee. After the two Appropriations
Committees, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee came next with a total of
12 reports, followed by the House Resources Committee (12), House Education and
Workforce Committee (11), and House Science Committee (10).
16The reports accompanying vetoed measures were grouped with those accompanying
enacted bills, because of the 14 reports in this category 10 accompanied appropriations
measures eventually enacted under some rubric other than that of the original bill (three
from House Appropriations Committee, four from Senate Appropriations Committee, and
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Another perspective incorporates the distribution of committees from which the
reports with relevant passages came across the three Congresses for which we have
data. As mentioned above, for the previous two Congresses, only reports
accompanying measures which became public laws were encompassed by the CRS
studies. For the 106th Congress, we sought to cover all committee reports. However,
for the purposes of comparison across Congresses, only those reports from the 106th
conforming with the previous parameters were included, i.e., committee reports
accompanying measures that were enacted or vetoed. Table 3 provides data for
House committees from the 104th, 105th, and 106th Congresses, while Table 4
reflects the figures for Senate committees over the same six-year period.
Following a pattern seen previously in the 104th and 105th Congresses, and for
the 106th Congress as well, the committees submitting the most reports having
GPRA-associated passages that accompanied bills signed into law or vetoed by the
President in both House and Senate were the Appropriations Committees. In the
House, 23 out of 52 total reports, or 44%, were from the Appropriations Committee;
and in the Senate, 18 out of 38 reports, or 47%. However, in the previous Congresses
the Appropriations Committees accounted for a majority of the committee reports
having GPRA-related passages accompanying bills enacted into law: 56% in the 104th
Congress and 54% in the 103rd Congress. So while the House and Senate
Appropriations Committees retained “first place” for the respective chambers in the
106th Congress, reports with GPRA-associated passages were becoming more
broadly dispersed among the various House and Senate committees. As indicated in
Table 3, in the 104th Congress, performance measurement-related passages appeared
in reports of four House committees; in the 105th, eight committees; and in the 106th,
18 committees. For the Senate, in the 104th Congress, these reports came from five
committees; in the l05th Congress, six committees; and in the 106th Congress, 15
committees (see Table 4). With respect to the distribution by Appropriations
subcommittees, in the 106th Congress, 23 of the 26 subcommittees had reports with
GPRA-associated passages (12 of 13 in the House, and 11 of 13 in the Senate).17
17Appropriations Subcommittees for which no GPRA-associated passages were identified
in 106th Congress committee reports included the House and Senate Subcommittees on
Military Construction and the Senate Subcommittee on Defense.

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Table 1. Instances of 106th Congress Committee Reports with
GPRA-Associated Passages by House Committee
Report with
bill enacted
House Committees
Total
or vetoed
Othera
Agriculture 2
1
1
Appropriations 23
23
0
Armed Services
2
2
0
Banking and Financial Services
3
0
3
Budget 1
1
0
Commerce 6
2
4
Education and the Workforce
11
2
9
Government Reform
4
1
3
House Administration
0
0
0
International Relations
2
2
0
Judiciary 3
0
3
Resources 12
5
7
Rules 6
0
6
Science 10
2
8
Select Committee on Intelligence
3
2
1
Small Business
2
1
1
Standards of Official Conduct
0
0
0
Transportation and Infrastructure
5
3
2
Veterans’ Affairs
2
2
0
Ways and Means
7
3
4
Totals
104
52
52
a. Includes oversight reports, and other reports not accompanying measures passed by both the House
and the Senate.

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Table 2. Instances of 106th Congress Committee Reports with
GPRA-Associated Passages by Senate Committee
Report with
bill enacted
Senate Committees
Total
or vetoed
Othera
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
0
0
0
Appropriations 19
18
1
Armed Services
2
1
1
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
2
0
2
Budget 1
0
1
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
6
2
4
Energy and Natural Resources
4
2
2
Environment and Public Works
4
2
2
Finance 2
1
1
Foreign Relations
3
1
2
Governmental Affairs
12
7
5
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
8
1
7
Indian Affairs
5
2
3
Judiciary 0
0
0
Rules and Administration
1
0
1
Select Committee on Ethics
0
0
0
Select Committee on Intelligence
0
0
0
Small Business
2
1
1
Special Committee on Aging
0
0
0
Veterans’ Affairs
2
0
2
Totals
73
38
35
a. Includes oversight reports, and other reports not accompanying measures passed by both the House
and the Senate.

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Table 3. House Reports Accompanying Enacted Measures
Identified with Performance Measure Features or GPRA-
Associated Passages, from 104th, 105th and 106th
Congresses, by House Committee
Congress
House Committees
104th
105th
106th
1995-96
1997-98
1999-2000
Agriculture 1
1
1
Appropriations
8
20
23
Armed Servicesa
1
0
2
Banking and Financial Services
0
0
0
Budget
0
0
1
Commerce
0
1
2
Education and the Workforce
0
3
2
Government Reform
2
1
1
House Administration
0
0
0
International Relations
0
0
2
Judiciary
0
0
0
Resources
0
0
5
Rules
0
0
0
Science
0
1
2
Select Committee on Intelligence
0
0
2
Small Business
0
0
1
Standards of Official Conduct
0
0
0
Transportation and Infrastructure
0
1
3
Veterans’ Affairs
0
0
2
Ways and Means
0
1
3
Totals
12
29
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a. Called National Security Committee in 104th Congress

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Table 4. Senate Reports Accompanying Enacted Measures
Identified with Performance Measure Features or GPRA-
Associated Passages, from 104th, 105th and 106th
Congresses, by Senate Committee
Congress
Senate Committees
104th
105th
106th
1995-96
1997-98
1999-2000
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
0
1
0
Committee
Appropriations Committee
7
22
19
Armed Services Committee
1
0
2
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
0
0
0
Committee
Budget Committee
1
0
0
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
0
1
2
Committee
Energy and Natural Resources Committee
0
1
2
Environment and Public Works Committee
0
1
2
Finance Committee
0
0
1
Foreign Relations Committee
0
0
1
Governmental Affairs Committee
2
0
8
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
1
4
1
Committee
Indian Affairs Committee
0
0
2
Judiciary Committee
0
0
0
Rules and Administration Committee
0
0
0
Select Committee on Ethics
0
0
0
Select Committee on Intelligence
0
1
0
Small Business Committee
0
0
1
Special Committee on Aging
0
0
0
Veterans’ Affairs Committee
0
0
0
Totals
12
30
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References to GPRA and Related Documents
In over half of all the committee reports and public laws from the 106th Congress
identified as having GPRA- related provisions (136 out of 255), there were explicit
references to the Government Performance and Results Act. Sometimes the act was
merely mentioned or cited, while in other instances GPRA was endorsed in a
supportive way, such as for overall quality of implementation, or specifically with
regard to an agency’s strategic or performance plans or performance reports (see
Table 5).
Table 5. GPRA-Associated Provisions in the106th Congress:
References to the Results Act and Related Documentationa
Number of Public Laws
Number of Committee
Type of reference
Identified (with type)
Reports Identified
Mentions Act
6
31
Endorses Act
0
16
Refers to Strategic Plan
15
77
Refers to Performance
2
32
Plan
Refers to Performance
2
21
Report
Other
1
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a. A given report or public law identified as having GPRA related provisions could contain more than
one type of reference. As noted above, over half of the reports and public laws from the 106th
Congress recognized as having GPRA-relevant provisions displayed at least one of the types of
references reflected in the table.
Sometimes the language in reports or public laws included reference to or
endorsement of GPRA, accompanied by discussion of concerns regarding
performance measurement, budget linkages, or some other factor. Such “dual”
characteristic provisions are to receive further attention in a separate CRS report,
forthcoming, providing a more detailed analysis of GPRA and associated provisions
from the 106th Congress.
Examples of References to GPRA in Public Laws
In terms of specific references to GPRA found in public laws from the 106th
Congress, references to strategic plans were most prevalent (15 instances identified),
while there were two references each to performance plans and reports; there were
also six general mentions of the act (see Table 5). Some examples will serve to
illustrate the variety of these provisions.

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Section 103(a) of P.L. 106-503, the Fire Administration Authorization Act of
2000, contained a requirement for a new strategic plan:
Not later than April 30, 2001, the Administrator of the United States Fire
Administration shall prepare and transmit to the Committee on Science of the
House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation of the Senate a 5-year strategic plan of program activities for the
United States Fire Administration. (114 Stat. 2299)
Section 103(b) titled “Contents of Plan,” stipulated 13 items to be addressed in the
strategic plan, starting with a comprehensive mission statement and ending with the
expected costs for implementing the plan. Subparagraph (10) in Section 106(b)
entailed “a description of how the strategic plan prepared under this section will be
incorporated into the strategic plan and the performance plans and reports of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency” (114 Stat. 2999, 2300). Further, the
House report accompanying the measure referred to the section with the strategic
plan provisions and noted: “The language in this section matches closely the
language on strategic plans in the Government Performance and Results Act.”18
The Small Business Reauthorization Act of 2000, enacted as a part of the
Consolidated Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (P.L. 106-554–Appendix I)
references the agency’s annual performance plan as required by 31 USC 1115(a) and
(b) (i.e., GPRA). Section 106, “Report on Programs for Annual Performance Plan,”
amended the Small Business Act, to require the inclusion within the annual
performance plan for the Small Business Administration of a section on the SBIR
(small business innovation research) program, and the submission of such section to
the Committee on Small Business of the Senate, and to the House Science and Small
Business committees (114 Stat. 2763A-669).
P.L. 106-565, the Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission Act of 2000,
requires the new body to prepare a strategic plan and annual performance plans.
Section 4(c)(2)(a) provides: “In accordance with the Government Performance and
Results Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-62; 107 Stat. 285), the Commission shall prepare a
strategic plan and annual performance plans for the activities of the Commission
carried out under this Act” (114 Stat. 2814-15).
A final example comes from the National Defense Authorization Act for
FY2000 (P.L. 106-65). In Section 245(a)(2), “Additional Pilot Program for
Revitalizing Department of Defense Laboratories,” reference is made to GPRA
(codified) as a factor for consideration by the Secretary of Defense in choosing
participants in the pilot program. The provision stipulates: “In selecting the
laboratories for participation in the pilot program, the Secretary shall consider
laboratories where innovative management techniques have been demonstrated,
particularly as documented under sections 115 through 1119 of title 31, United States
Code, relating to Government agency performance and results” (113 Stat. 553).
18U.S. Congress. House Committee on Science, Fire Administration Authorization Act of
1999, report to accompany H.R. 1550, 106th Cong., 1st sess., H. Rept. 106-133 (Washington:
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Examples of References to GPRA in Committee Reports
Many of the citations to GPRA and related documents identified in 106th
Congress committee reports occurred in reports of the Appropriations Committees.
However, there were also instances in reports accompanying authorization measures,
as well as in committee oversight reports. The following discussion considers some
examples of such passages in the respective types of committee reports.
Appropriations reports. Most of the reports from the Appropriations
committees identified in this study contained multiple references to GPRA. The
examples cited below provide a sampling.
While less prevalent than in the preceding Congress, general language
conveying committee support for GPRA was inserted in many committee reports
from the 106th Congress. One such instance occurred in the Senate report
accompanying the Agriculture appropriations bill for FY2001. After alluding to the
GPRA requirements, the report stated:
The Committee supports the concepts of this law and intends to use the
agencies’ plans for funding purposes. The Committee considers GPRA to be a
viable way to reduce Federal spending while achieving a more efficient and
effective Government and will closely monitor compliance with this law. The
Committee is fully committed to the success and outcome of GPRA requirements
as envisioned by the Congress, the administration, and this Committee.19
Comments in a committee report regarding support for GPRA and progress to
date were also directed to a particular agency. For example, the Senate report
accompanying the FY2000 Labor/HHS/Education bill noted with specific reference
to the Administration on Aging: “The Committee supports the efforts of the agency
in implementing the Government Performance and Results Act and believes the
agency should continue work in this area.”20
In the Senate report accompanying the FY2001 Transportation appropriations
bill, a separate section titled “Government Performance and Results Act” (placed
within the summary of major recommendations discussion), likewise conveyed
support and praise for GPRA: “The Committee is fully committed to support the
[Transportation] Department as it seeks to implement the requirements of the Results
Act” and “commends the Department for its aggressive implementation” of GPRA.21
19U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Agriculture, Rural Development,
Food and Drub Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001, report to
accompany S. 2536, 106th Cong., 2d sess., S. Rept. 106-288 (Washington: GPO, 2000), p.
9.
20U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2000, report to
accompany S. 1650, 106th Cong., 1st sess., S. Rept. 106-166 (Washington: GPO, 1999), p.
228.
21U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Department of Transportation and
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Moving beyond generalities, the discussion then turns to an assessment of the
department’s combined FY2001 performance plan and FY1999 performance report,
citing both accomplishments and shortcomings to date. In its performance report for
FY 1999 the Department of Transportation included data for over 90% of the
measures in the 1999 plan, with the department meeting or approaching (“had a
positive trend”) for about 77% of its 1999 goals. However, for five goals “missed
by a significant amount, the Department is reviewing its strategies to see if they need
to be changed.”22 The committee report also examined Transportation’s FY2001
performance plan, concluding:
Clearly, the [Transportation] Department has made major strides with its
performance plan, but that plan has yet to penetrate the day-to-day operations of
the Department, the modal administrations, or the procurement or personnel
processes. In short, the plans are very useful documents for determining how the
Department views the relative and absolute importance of its disparate goals and
a valuable gauge of whether the Departmental leadership is serious about
remedying identified deficiencies or inconsistencies in programs, activities,
management, or direction.23
Sometimes the appropriations reports contained an overview assessment of
GPRA implementation for all the major agencies funded in the bill. For example, in
the Senate report accompanying the VA/HUD FY2000 appropriations, an
introductory section titled “Government Performance and Results Act,” noted:
The Committee remains very concerned regarding the compliance of the
major agencies within the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommittee on
VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies with regard to the Government
Performance and Results Act (GPRA). While each agency has made progress
toward compliance with GPRA, each has additional progress to make. Each
agency must do better at providing objective, measurable goals for all program
activities and projects, and each budget justification must tie these goals into a
coherent set of funding requests.24

Another format for presentation of committee observations regarding GPRA
was used in the Senate report accompanying the FY2001 Labor/HHS/Education bill.
This report included as part of its introductory discussion a separate section on
GPRA. However, there were no general remarks across agencies, but rather specific
observations regarding the performance plans and reports provided for each cabinet
department covered by the bill. For example, the committee seemed quite pleased
with GPRA activities in the Department of Health and Human Services, finding its
21(...continued)
Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001, report to accompany S. 2720, 106th Cong., 2d
sess., S. Rept. 106-309 (Washington: GPO, 2000), p. 6.
22Ibid., p. 6.
23Ibid., p. 8.
24U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Departments of Veterans Affairs
and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000,
report to accompany S. 1596, 106th Cong., 1st sess., S. Rept. 106-161 (Washington: GPO,
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performance plan “much improved over previous years. Many parts of the [FY2001
performance] plan do fulfill the Results Act’s purpose of ensuring that Congress has
the necessary information to assess whether HHS programs are achieving intended
results.”25
It was not feasible to calculate the total number of references to GPRA in each
report. However, the reports accompanying Labor/ HHS/Education appropriations
bills appeared to contain among the most. In the House report accompanying the
FY2000 bill, there were over 50 mentions of GPRA and over 100 hits on related
terms such as performance measure and strategic plan.26 In a section titled
“Government Performance and Results Act,” toward the beginning of the report, the
committee stated that it “continues to believe” that the departments and agencies
within its jurisdiction “have made adequate progress” in establishment of goals and
benchmarks, yet “remain a long way from meeting its overall intent.”27 In
subsequent sections, the report notes, repeatedly, “The Committee is concerned that
after two years of Congressional interest and six years since the passage of GPRA...”
a specified agency or program funded via the bill has not identified specific
numerical performance goals, or specific measurable standards. However, the
committee’s report language on occasion was quite complimentary with regard to
GPRA implementation. For example, in the House report accompanying the
Labor/HHS/Education FY2001 bill, the committee conveyed special approval in
discussion of the account for departmental management (salaries and expenses) for
the Education Department: “The Committee continues to be pleased with the
emphasis the Department’s senior management team has placed on complying with
the Government Performance and Results Act. The Committee expects the
Department to continue to develop and refine GPRA measures for all programs....”28
There was at least one instance in a report from a conference committee
accompanying an appropriations bill in the 106th Congress where a general reference
to GPRA was included. In the joint explanatory statement accompanying the
Treasury bill for FY2000, in discussing the President’s proposal on climate change,
the conferees noted, “With regard to programs pursued under the President’s
25U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2001, report to
accompany S. 2553, 106th Cong., 2d sess., S. Rept. 106-293 (Washington: GPO, 2000), p.
21.
26U.S. Congress. House Committee on Appropriations, Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2000, report to
accompany H.R. 3037, 106th Cong., 1st sess., H. Rept. 106-370 (Washington: GPO, 1999).
27Ibid., p. 10.
28U.S. Congress. House Committee on Appropriations, Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2001, report to
accompany H.R. 4577, 106th Cong., 2d sess., H. Rept. 106-645 (Washington: GPO, 2000),
p. 177.

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proposal, the conferees expect the administration to comply with the letter and spirit
of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA).”29
Authorization and oversight reports. There were varied references to
GPRA in authorization reports, although not as frequently as in appropriations
reports. A few examples follow.
The Senate report accompanying H.R. 1833, the Customs Authorization Act of
1999, contained a discussion of provisions in Section 202 (regarding internal
compliance and management of customs), and how they emanated from GPRA:
The proposal would institutionalize the management changes begun by the
Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, which requires all
government agencies to establish performance measures and assess their
performance on an annual basis. The internal compliance model, with its higher
emphasis on encouraging compliance through training, self-assessment, the
identification of specific management objectives for the succeeding review
period, and the measurement of agency performances against those benchmarks,
draws on best practices currently available within government and the private
sector to encourage management by objective throughout the agency, and thereby
contribute to the improvement in Customs’ performance of its mission
responsibility.30
The report accompanying S. 296, the Federal Research Investment Act, referred
to GPRA and the special problems encountered by research agencies in implementing
it, noting:
While funding levels are one important consideration for Federal R&D
programs, another issue is improving the effectiveness of such programs. On
August 3, 1993, the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) was
signed into law.... Individual agencies are submitting performance plans to
Congress during the FY2000 authorization and appropriations cycle. The General
Accounting Office reports that research agencies have encountered difficulties
in preparing strategic plans and in developing performance measures.31
In reviewing the background on authorizing legislation for the Department of
Energy (DOE), a report from the House Science Committee provided a summary of
hearings on the measure, including one on March 24, 1999, titled “Fiscal Year 2000
29U.S. Congress. Committee of Conference, Making Appropriations for the Treasury
Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and
Certain Independent Agencies, for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2000, and for
Other Purposes, conference report to accompany H.R. 2490, 106th Cong., 1st sess., H. Rept.
106-319 )Washington: GPO, 1999), p. 56.
30U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, Customs Authorization Act of 1999, report
to accompany H.R. 1833, S. Rept. 106-156, 106th Cong., 1st sess. (Washington: GPO, 1999),
p. 20.
31U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Federal
Research Investment Act, report to accompany S. 296, 106th Cong., 1st sess., S. Rept. 106-
106 (Washington: GPO, 1999), p. 2.

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Budget Authorization Request: Department of Energy Results Act Implementation.”
The DOE Inspector General testified on reviews by his office relating to GPRA
implementation and presented his findings and recommendations, while a witness
from GAO offered observations regarding DOE’s record in implementing GPRA.
Also appearing from DOE was the Director of Strategic Planning, Budget, and
Program Evaluation, who related agency efforts to comply with the Results Act and
characterized the two main challenges remaining for DOE in GPRA implementation
as “refining and perfecting measures so that they represent outcomes, not outputs,
and ensuring that all Department activities, budgets, contracts, and plans clearly link
to the strategic plan.”32
There were also references in oversight reports. For example, the House
Committee on Government Reform held hearings and issued an oversight report on
federal financial management reform, which referenced GPRA in relation to the
Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 (CFO Act), as expanded by the Government
Management Reform Act of 1994 (GMRA), and further amended by the Federal
Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996 (FFMIA). The 1999 report stated:
It is imperative that these acts [CFO Act, GMRA, and FFMIA] are
implemented successfully. They form the basis for the data used in measuring
program performance under the Government Performance and Results Act. ...
Thus, at a minimum, strong congressional oversight is needed to achieve the
primary goal of all these laws: a Federal Government that is accountable to the
American taxpayers.33
In the Senate, the Appropriations Committee prepared a special report on the
impact of GPRA on the appropriations process, focusing particularly on agency
performance plans for FY2000. The report assessed agency implementation under
the rubric of the subcommittees and provided some general observations:
As this report illustrates, the quality and usefulness of the performance plan is
directly impacted by the following factors: (1) the quality of the agency’s goals
and measures; (2) an agency’s vulnerability to external factors in achieving its
goals; (3) the accuracy of agency data; (4) agency responsiveness to GAO and
Congressional concerns and/or recommendations, such as the GAO high risk
areas; (5) the quality and frequency of the consultation process between the
32U.S. Congress. House Committee on Science, Department of Energy Research,
Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1999, report to accompany H.R.
1655, 106th Cong., 1st sess., H. Rept. 106-243 (Washington: GPO, 1999), pp. 16-17.
It should be noted that there were several oversight hearings on GPRA in the 106th
Congress, but unless they were mentioned in a committee report, such as that accompanying
the DOE reauthorization bill just cited, they are not reflected in this CRS study. As noted,
the search technique for identifying relevant provisions encompassed public laws and
committee reports, but not hearings.
33U.S. Congress. House Committee on Government Reform, Making the Federal
Government Accountable: Enforcing the Mandate for Effective Financial Management,
106th Cong., 1st sess., H. Report. 106-170 (Washington: GPO, 1999), pp. 3-4.
The point was reiterated in a sequel issued in the second session. See Making the
Federal Government Accountable: Enforcing the Mandate for Effective Financial
Management, 106th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Rept. 106-802 (Washington: GPO, 2000), p. 3.

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agency and Congressional staff; and (6) the commitment of agency staff to
comply with the Results Act.34
As a final example of references in reports not accompanying appropriations
measures,35 there was mention of GPRA implementation in the report of the Senate
Budget Committee accompanying the budget resolution for FY2000. The language
read:
The Committee-reported resolution assumes that the discipline of the
spending caps will be maintained by the Committees of the Congress beginning
to actively engage in oversight and implementation of the ‘Government
Performance and Results Act of 1993' that was designed specifically to identify
low performance and ineffective government spending programs.36
Afterword
This report provided an overview analysis of data relating to congressional
efforts to monitor the implementation of the Government Performance and Results
Act during the 106th Congress (1999-2000). The approach used was to examine
GPRA-related provisions identified in an electronic search of public laws and
committee reports from the 106th Congress. After providing an overview of the data,
this report focused on specific references to GPRA and related documentation
(strategic plans and annual performance plans and reports). The discussion
proceeded to consider instances of GPRA-related provisions in public laws, and also
in committee reports from appropriation and authorization committees as well as in
committee oversight reports.
Congressional efforts to oversee GPRA implementation in executive branch
agencies continued in the 107th Congress. In January 2001, the House approved
changes in its standing rules to require that committee reports authorizing new
funding include a statement of general performance goals and objectives, including
34U.S. Congress. S. Committee on Appropriations, Special Report on the Government
Performance and Results Act of 1993, 106th Cong., 2nd sess., Senate Rept. 106-347
(Washington: GPO, 2000), p. 95.
35There were also two special studies by committee staff which referenced GPRA,
issued by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee toward the end of the 106th
Congress. However, since these documents were released by the chairman in the
form of committee prints rather than as full committee reports, they fell outside the
purview of this study. See report of Sen. Fred Thompson, Management Challenges Facing
the New Administration, 106th Cong., 2nd sess, Senate Prt. 106-62 (Washington: GPO, 2000);
and Major Management Challenges Facing Federal Departments and Agencies, Senate Prt.
106-63, (Washington: GPO, 2000).
36U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on the Budget, Concurrent Resolution on the Budget
FY2000, report to accompany S. Con. Res. 20, 106th Cong., 1st sess., S. Rept. 106-27
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outcome-related goals and objectives.37 On June 19, 2001, the House Government
Reform Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management and
Intergovernmental Relations held a hearing focusing on “The Results Act: Has it Met
Congressional Expectations?” On September 19, 2002, the same subcommittee of
the House Government Reform Committee, along with the Subcommittee on
Legislative and Budget Process of the House Rules Committee, held a joint oversight
hearing on “Linking Program Funding to Performance Results.”38
In a statement submitted for the record of the September hearing, Sen. Fred
Thompson conveyed some thoughts on the future of GPRA, observing:
We still have a long way to go in implementing the Results Act and in
making the federal government more results-oriented and performance-based.
We are at the point after all these years of implementing the Results Act where
we need to start using performance information to make decisions or we might
as well give up on the Act.39
Sen. Thompson then voiced some optimism regarding the future of GPRA, noting
that he was “encouraged by the President’s unprecedented interest in, and the Office
of Management and Budget’s new focus on, integrating performance review with
budget decisions.” In a similar vein, Rep. Stephen Horn, Chairman of the
Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management, and
Intergovernmental Relations, observed in his opening statement that many agencies
“have made significant progress” in using their GPRA plans and reports to measure
their performance. However, the connection between performance results and
funding decisions has been lacking, and until decision makers firmly establish that
linkage, “the Results Act will remain largely a paper exercise.... Fortunately, the
current Administration is intent on establishing this link.” Rep. Deborah Pryce,
Chairman of the Rules Subcommittee on the Legislative and Budget Process,
likewise noted that she was encouraged by recent efforts “to establish a more
meaningful link between ...(GPRA) and the budget process,” and concluded her
opening statement “by saying that as government performance rating tools and
measures become more and more reliable, Congress will be finally responsible for
using and integrating this information into our budgetary and fiscal decision-
making.”40
To review very briefly recent developments in the executive branch relating to
GPRA and performance budgeting, in August 2001the Bush Administration released
the “President’s Management Agenda,” for improving performance; one of five
37Rule X, clause 4(c)(2). See Rules of the House of Representatives, 107th Congress,
prepared by Jeff Trandahl, Clerk of the House, Jan. 3, 2001.
38Testimony available online at http://www.house.gov/rules/rules_test17.htm.
39Senator Fred Thompson, Linking Program Funding to Performance Results, Statement for
the Record before a joint hearing, Sept. 19, 2002. Ibid.
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government-wide initiatives identified was budget and performance integration.41 On
February 4, 2002, President Bush transmitted his budget for FY2003, which sought
to incorporate the five management initiatives, including budget and performance
integration, into agencies’ budgets and introduced a “Management Scorecard” to
measure progress.42 In a memorandum dated April 24, 2002, from OMB Director
Daniels, regarding planning for the FY2004 budget requests, the Bush
Administration announced that its effort to base budget decisions on program
performance would continue and be expanded:
As a part of the President’s budget and performance integration
management initiative, this year we will continue our emphasis on program
effectiveness. OMB has already begun an extensive effort to identify a subset
of programs and evaluation metrics for these programs..... Effectiveness ratings
for approximately 20 percent of your programs will be published in the
President’s FY 2004 Budget.43
The final version of the new program performance assessment rating tool,
known as PART, was issued in July, 2002.44 PART was used by agency program
managers and OMB budget examiners to evaluate over 200 programs during the
budget review process for the President’s FY2004 budget in the fall of 2002.
According to OMB officials, while scores from PART are intended to be used in
making budget decisions, the purpose is diagnostic and not punitive. A low score
this year will not necessarily lead to funding cuts, OMB officials assert, and it could
mean that the program needs more funding in order to be successful.45 Despite such
reassurances, some are concerned that eventually PART may be used to justify
substantial reductions in, or perhaps elimination of, programs not favored by the
Administration.
41See OMB, The President’s Management Agenda,” Aug. 2001. Available electronically
at [http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2002/mgmt.pdf].
42See Budget of the United Sates Government, Fiscal Year 2003, Analytical Perspectives
(Washington: GPO, 2002), pp. 3-16, re. “Budget and Performance Integration,” and pp. 411-
415, re. “Scorecard Standards for Success.”
43See OMB, “Planning for the President’s Fiscal Year 2004 Budget Request,” Memorandum
for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies from Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., M-02-06,
April 24, 2002.
44See OMB, “Program Performance Assessments for the FY2004 Budget,” Memorandum
for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies from Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., M-02-10,
July 16, 2002.
45Ibid. Further discussed by Marcus Peacock, OMB briefing on PART for invited
participants, October 25, 2002. Mr. Peacock is the OMB Associate Director for Natural
Resources, Energy, and Science, and concurrently serves as the lead for the performance and
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Appendix A: Laws from the 106th Congress
Identified with GPRA-Associated Provisions

P.L. 106-25
Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999
P.L. 106-53
Water Resources Development Act of 1999
P.L. 106-57
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2000
P.L. 106-58
Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2000
P.L. 106-65
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000
P.L. 106-69
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2000
P.L. 106-74
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000
P.L. 106-78
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000
P.L. 106-79
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000
P.L. 106-84
To amend the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to provide for
greater fiscal autonomy consistent with other United States jurisdictions, and
for other purposes.
P.L. 106-107
Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999
P.L. 106-113
Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY2000, including provisions from
these bills:
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000

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Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Appropriations Act, 2000
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001
Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of
1999
Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of
1999
P.L. 106-117
Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act
P.L. 106-129
Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999
P.L. 106-148
National Geologic Mapping Reauthorization Act of 1999
P.L. 106-159
Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999
P.L. 106-169
Foster Care Independence Act of 1999
P.L. 106-170
Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999
P.L. 106-181
Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century
P.L. 106-202
Worker Economic Opportunity Act
P.L. 106-224
Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000
P.L. 106-246
Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2001
P.L. 106-259
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2001
P.L. 106-284
Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000
P.L. 106-292
To authorize appropriations for the United States Holocaust Memorial
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P.L. 106-303
To make certain personnel flexibilities available with respect to the General
Accounting Office, and for other purposes.
P.L. 106-309
Microenterprise for Self-Reliance and International Anti-Corruption Act of
2000
P.L. 106-310
Children’s Health Act of 2000
P.L. 106-373
Famine Prevention and Freedom From Hunger Improvement Act of 2000
P.L. 106-377
Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001
P.L. 106-398
Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001
P.L. 106-404
Technology Transfer Commercialization Act of 2000
P.L. 106-414
Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation
(TREAD) Act
P.L. 106-501
Older Americans Act Amendments of 2000
P.L. 106-503
Fire Administration Authorization Act of 2000
P.L. 106-505
Public Health Improvement Act
P.L. 106-531
Reports Consolidation Act of 2000
P.L. 106-554
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001, including provisions from these
bills:
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001
Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001
Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection
Act of 2000
Small Business Reauthorization Act

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P.L. 106-562
To approve a governing international fishery agreement between the United
States and the Russian Federation.
P.L. 106-565
Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission Act of 2000
P.L. 106-568
Omnibus Indian Advancement Act
P.L. 106-569
American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000

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Appendix B: Committee Reports
in the 106th Congress Identified
with GPRA-Related Passages
House Reports46
Paperwork Elimination Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-11, part 1)
Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-43)
Making Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending
September 30, 1999, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-64)
Oversight Plans for All House Committees (H.Rept. 106-78)
Microenterprise for Self-Reliance Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-82)
Beaches Environmental Assessment, Cleanup, and Health Act of 1999 (H.Rept.
106-98)
Earthquake Hazards Reduction Authorization Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-99, part
1)
Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-100)
Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-106, part 1)
Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 1480, the Water Resources Development
Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-120)
Fire Administration Authorization Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-133)
American Land Sovereignty Protection Act (H.Rept. 106-142)
Making Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending
September 30, 1999, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-143)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 1999
(H.Rept. 106-145)
National Weather Service and Related Agencies Authorization Act of 1999
(H.Rept. 106-146)
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-155, part 1)
Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-156)
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-157)
Trade Agency Authorizations, Drug Free Borders, and Presentation of On-Line
Child Pornography Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-161)
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (H.Rept. 106-162)
Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 1401, the National Defense Authorizstion
Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (H.Rept. 106-166)
Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (H.Rept. 106-167, part 1)
Child Care Services for Federal Employees (H.Rept. 106-169)
Making the Federal Government Accountable: Enforcing the Mandate for
Effective Financial Management (H.Rept. 106-170)
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000
(H.Rept. 106-180)
Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act of 1999 (House Report 106-198,
part 2)
46Reports from conference committees are included here. According to congressional
practice, conference reports are issued with House numbers.

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Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-202)
Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-220, part 1)
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000
(H.Rept. 106-222)
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Bill, 2000
(H.Rept. 106-231)
Teacher Empowerment Act (H.Rept. 106-232, part 1)
Veterans’ Millennium Health Care Act (H.Rept. 106-237)
Financial Freedom Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-238)
Department of Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization
Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-243)
Department of Defense Appropriations Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-244)
District of Columbia Appropriations Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-249)
Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-253)
Foreign Operations, Export Financial, and Related Programs Appropriations
Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-254)
Wellton-Mohawk Transfer Act (H.Rept. 106-257)
Clear Creek Distribution System Conveyance Act (H.Rept. 106-258)
Sly Park Unit Conveyance Act (H.Rept. 106-259)
Carlsbad Irrigation Project Acquired Land Conveyance Act (H.Rept. 106-260)
Department of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Bill, Fiscal Year 2000 (H.Rept. 106-283)
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-286)
American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-287, part 1)
Taxpayer Refund and Relief Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-289)
Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-298)
Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-300)
Health Research and Quality Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-305)
Making Appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal
Service, the Executive Office of the President, and Certain Independent
Agencies, for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2000, and for Other
Purposes (H.Rept. 106-319)
Export Enhancement Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-325)
Small Business Innovation Research Program Reauthorization Act of 1999
(H.Rept. 106-329, part 1)
Motor Carrier Safety Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-333)
To Provide Greater Fiscal Autonomy for the Virgin Islands (H.Rept. 106-337)
Making Appropriations for Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related
Programs for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2000, and for Other
Purposes (H.Rept. 106-339)
Recycle America’s Land Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-353)
Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
Administration, and Related Agencies Programs for the Fiscal Year Ending
September 30, 2000, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-354)
Making Appropriations for the Department of Transportation and Related
Agencies for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2000, and for Other
Purposes (H.Rept. 106-355)
Rewarding Performance in Compensation Act (H.Rept. 106-358)

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Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 2990, the Quality Care for the Uninsured
Act of 1999, and H.R. 2723, the Bipartisan Consensus Managed Care
Improvement Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-366)
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000 (H.Rept. 106-370)
Making Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the Fiscal Year Ending
September 30, 2000, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-371)
Making Appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and
Urban Development, and for Sundry Independent Agencies, Boards,
Commissions, Corporations, and Offices for the Fiscal Year Ending
September 30, 2000, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-379)
Academic Achievement for All Act (H.Rept. 106-386)
National Geologic Mapping Reauthorization Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-389)
Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-393,
part 1)
Student Results Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-394, part 1)
Student Results Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-394, part 2)
Making Appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies for the Fiscal year Ending September 30,
2000, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-398)
Making Appropriations for the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
for the Fiscal year Ending September 30, 2000, and for Other Purposes
(H.Rept. 106-406)
Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 2300, the Academic Achievement for All
Act (H.Rept. 106-408)
Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 2260, Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999
(H.Rept. 106-409)
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (H.Rept.
106-415)
Making Appropriations for the Government of the District of Columbia and Other
Activities Chargeable in Whole or in Part Against Revenues of Said District
for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2000, and for Other Purposes
(H.Rept. 106-419)
Fathers Count Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-424, part 1)
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Amendments of 1999 (H.Rept.
106-429)
Welfare-to-Work Amendments of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-456, part 1)
United States Marshals Service Improvement Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-459)
Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of 1999 (H.Rept.
106-464)
Wage and Employment Growth Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-467, part 1)
Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act (H.Rept. 106-470)
Tribal Self-Governance Amendments of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-477)
Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-478)
Making Appropriations for the Government of the District of Columbia and Other
Activities Chargeable in Whole or in Part Against Revenues of Said District
for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2000, and for Other Purposes
(H.Rept. 106-479)
Debt Relief for Poverty Reduction Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-483, part 1)
Small Watershed Rehabilitation Amendments of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-484, part 2)

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Coastal Community Conservation Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-485)
Department of Energy Commercial Application of Energy Technology
Authorization Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-492, part 1)
Indian Tribal Economic Development and Contract Encouragement Act of 1999
(H.Rept. 106-501)
Literacy Involves Families Together Act (H.Rept. 106-503)
Environmental Protection Agency Office of Air and Radiation Authorization Act
of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-511)
Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development and
Science Advisory Board Authorization Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-512, part 1)
Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century
(H.Rept. 106-513)
American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 (H.Rept. 106-
553)
Education Opportunities to Protect and Invest in Our Nation’s Students
(Education Options) Act (H.Rept. 106-608)
Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 853, the Comprehensive Budget Process
Reform Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-613)
Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001
(H.Rept. 106-616)
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001 (H.Rept. 106-619)
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (H.Rept. 106-620)
Providing for the Consideration of H.R. 4205, National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (H.Rept. 106-621)
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001
(H.Rept. 106-622)
America’s Private Investment Companies Act (H.Rept. 106-638)
Department of Defense Appropriations Bill, 2001 (H.Rept. 106-644)
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related
Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2001 (H.Rept. 106-645)
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001
(H.Rept. 106-646)
Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (H.Rept. 106-661)
Higher Education Technical Amendments of 2000 (H.Rept. 106-665)
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001 (H.Rept. 106-674)
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Bill, Fiscal Year 2001 (H.Rept. 106-680)
Improving Counterintelligence Capabilities at the Department of Energy and the
Los Alamos, Sandia, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
(H.Rept. 106-687)
Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill, 2001 (H.Rept. 106-693)
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations
Bill, 2001 (H.Rept. 106-720)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (H.Rept. 106-751)
Making Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the Fiscal Year Ending
September 30, 2001, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-754)
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Bill, 2001
(H.Rept. 106-756)

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Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration Partnership Act of 2000 (H.Rept. 106-
762)
Amending Title 44, United States Code, to Authorize Appropriations for the
National Historical Publications and Records Commission for Fiscal Year
2002 Through 2005 (H.Rept. 106-768)
Child Support Distribution Act of 2000 (H.Rept. 106-793)
Making the Federal Government Accountable: Enforcing the Mandate for
Effective Financial Management (H.Rept. 106-802)
Education National Science Act (H.Rept. 106-821, part 1)
Intellectual Property Technical Amendments Act of 2000 (H.Rept. 106-853)
Making Appropriations for Energy and Water Development for the Fiscal Year
Ending September 30, 2001, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-907)
Making Appropriations for the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2001, and for Other Purposes
(H.Rept. 106-914)
Enactment of Provisions of H.R. 5408, the Floyd D. Spence National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (H.Rept. 106-945)
Marine Research and Related Environmental Research and Development
Programs Authorization Act of 1999 (H.Rept. 106-987, part 1)
Making Appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and
Urban Development, and for Sundry Independent Agencies, Boards,
Commissions, Corporations, and Offices for the Fiscal Year Ending
September 30, 2001, and for Other Purposes (H.Rept. 106-988)
Making Appropriations for Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related
Programs for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2001, and for Other
Purposes (H.Rept. 106-997)
Making Appropriations for the Government of the District of Columbia and Other
Activities Chargeable in Whole or in Part Against Revenues of Said District
for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2001, and for Other Purposes
(H.Rept. 106-1005)
CALFED Extension Act of 2000 (H.Rept. 106-1018, part 1)
Beneficiary Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 (H.Rept. 106-1019, part 1)
Water Resources Development Act of 2000 (H.Rept. 106-1020)
Making Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2001 (H.Rept. 106-1033)
Senate Reports
The Soldiers’, Sailors’, and Airmen’s and Marines’ Bill of Rights Act of 1999
(S.Rept. 106-1)
Air Transportation Improvement Act (S.Rept. 106-9)
Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act (S.Rept. 106-12)
Concurrent Resolution on the Budget FY2000 (S.Rept. 106-27)
Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-34)
Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-37)
Report on Legislative Activities of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources
(S.Rept. 106-40)
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000-2001 (S.Rept. 106-43)
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000
(S.Rept. 106-55)

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Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related
Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2000 (S.Rept. 106-76)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Years
2000, 2001, and 2002 (S.Rept. 106-77)
National Geologic Mapping Reauthorization Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-78)
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriation
Bill, 2000 (S.Rept. 106-81)
Patients’ Bill of Rights Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-82)
Legislative and Oversight Activities During the 105th Congress by the Senate
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs (S.Rept. 106-86)
Treasury and General Government Appropriation Bill, 2000 (S.Rept. 106-87)
District of Columbia Appropriations Bill, 2000 (S.Rept. 106-88)
Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999 (S.Rept.
106-103)
Federal Research Investment Act (S.Rept. 106-106)
Regulatory Improvement Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-110)
Veterans Benefits Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-122)
Providing Technical Corrections to the Native American Housing Assistance and
Self-Determination Act of 1996, to Improve the Delivery of Housing
Assistance to Indian Tribes in a Manner that Recognizes the Right of Tribal
Self-Governance, and for Other Purposes (S.Rept. 106-145)
Summary of Legislative and Oversight Activities During the 105th Congress of the
Committee on Small Business (S.Rept. 106-147)
Customs Authorization Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-156)
Federalism Accountability Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-159)
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2000 (S.Rept. 106-161)
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related
Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2000 (S.Rept. 106-166)
Griffith Project Prepayment and Conveyance Act (S.Rept. 106-173)
The Export Administration Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-180)
Estuary Habitat Restoration Partnership Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-189)
To Provide Federal Housing Assistance to Native Hawaiians (S.Rept. 106-192)
Youth Drug and Mental Health Services Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-196)
Safety Advancement for Employees Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-202)
Amending the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to Provide
for Further Self-Governance by Indian Tribes, and for Other Purposes
(S.Rept. 106-221)
The Technical Assistance, Trade Promotion, and Anti-Corruption Act of 2000
(S.Rept. 106-257)
Government Information Security Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-259)
Educational Opportunities Act (S.Rept. 106-261)
Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-274)
Agriculture, Rural Development. Food and Drug Administration, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-288)
Small Business Innovation Research Program Reauthorization Act of 2000
(S.Rept. 106-289)
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriation
Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-291)
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (S.Rept. 106-292)

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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related
Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-293)
Ryan White Care Act Amendments of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-294)
Disaster Mitigation Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-295)
Legislative Branch Appropriations, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-304)
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001
(S.Rept. 106-309)
The Next Generation Internet 2000 (S.Rept. 106-310)
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001
(S.Rept. 106-312)
The Microenterprise for Self-Reliance Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-335)
Reports Consolidation Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-337)
Special Report on the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (S.Rept.
106-347)
Presidential Transition Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-348)
Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-
366)
Earth, Wind, and Fire Authorization Act (S.Rept. 106-384)
Airport Security Improvement Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-388)
Amending the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act to Revise and
Extend Such Act (S.Rept. 106-389)
Energy and Water Development Appropriation Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-395)
Older Americans Act Amendments of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-399)
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related
Agencies Appropriation Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-404)
District of Columbia Appropriations Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-409)
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-410)
Coastal Zone Management Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-412)
To Provide for the Transfer of Public Lands to Certain California Indian Tribes
(S.Rept. 106-449)
Southeast Federal Center Public-Private Development Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-
458)
A Bill to Amend Title 44, United States Code, to Authorize Appropriations for the
National Historical Publications and Records Commission for Fiscal Years
2002 Through 2005 (S.Rept. 106-466)
Modifying the Date on Which the Mayor of the District of Columbia Submits a
Performance Accountability Plan to Congress, and for Other Purposes
(S.Rept. 106-469)
National Laboratories Partnership Improvement Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-487)
Outfitter Policy Act of 1999 (S.Rept. 106-491)
District of Columbia Receivership Accountability Act of 2000 (S.Rept. 106-493)
Amending the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and for Other Purposes (S.Rept.
106-498)
Treasury and General Government Appropriation Bill, 2001 (S.Rept. 106-500)
Public Threats and Emergencies Act (S.Rept. 106-505)

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