National Performance Review: Hearing Before the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, October 21, 1993 |
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$37 billion achieve administration appropriations areas asked BART STUPAK basically bill CALIFORNIA CFOs Chairman CHRISTOPHER SHAYS CLINGER COLLINS comptrollers Congress CONYERS coordinate cost CRAIG THOMAS deal DEBORAH PRYCE debt collection defense deficit reduction DENNIS HASTERT DICK ZIMMER Director eliminate energy efficiency executive branch Executive Order Federal Government FLORIDA freeze funds GENE GREEN Ginsberg give GLENN ENGLISH going Government Operations ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN implement incentive JOHN CONYERS kind LADER language legislation look MARGOLIES-MEZVINSKY MCCANDLESS ment Mike Synar NASA National Performance Review NPR recommendations October package oversight PANETTA percent personnel PETERSON President President's problem procurement reform programs proposals question rebate money reduce regard regulations regulatory reinventing government retain savings retention of savings ROB PORTMAN Secretary SHAYS specific staff STEVEN SCHIFF streamlining talk targets task force Thank things THURMAN tion unfunded mandates Wickman ZELIFF
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Page 30 - An amount equal to fifty percent of the energy and water cost savings realized by an agency (other than the Department of Defense) with respect to funds appropriated for any fiscal year beginning after fiscal year 1992 (including financial benefits resulting from energy savings performance contracts under title VIII and utility energy efficiency rebates) shall, subject to appropriation, remain available for expenditure by such agency for additional energy efficiency measures which may include related...
Page 13 - Gore to conduct an intensive six-month review of how the Federal government works. The Vice-President organized a team of experienced Federal employees from all corners of government to examine both agencies and cross-cutting systems, such as budgeting, procurement and personnel. He spoke with employees at every major agency and sought the views of hundreds of organizations, business leaders and state and local officials. The President also asked all cabinet members to create Reinvention Teams to...
Page 39 - And as the chairman has said, even though it is becoming a joke when the people have said, we are from the Federal Government and we are here to help...
Page 81 - Chair. [Whereupon, at 12:55 pm, the committee adjourned to reconvene subject to the call of the Chair...
Page 13 - ... which relied on outsiders. We turned to the people who know government best—who know what works, what doesn't, and how things ought to be changed. We organized these people into a series of teams, to examine both agencies and cross-cutting systems, such as budgeting, procurement, and personnel. The President also asked all cabinet members to create Reinvention Teams to lead transformations at their departments, and Reinvention Laboratories, to begin experimenting with new ways of doing business....
Page 30 - NECPA language specifies that: "An amount equal to fifty percent of the energy and water cost savings realized by an agency (other than the Department of Defense) with respect to funds appropriated for any fiscal year beginning after fiscal year 1992 (including financial benefits resulting from energy savings performance contracts under title VIII and...
Page 1 - Also present: Julian Epstein, staff director; Donald F. Goldberg, deputy staff director; Laurie Cody, professional staff member; Ellen P. Rayner, chief clerk; Carolyn C.
Page 30 - ... authorized and encouraged to participate in programs for energy or water conservation conducted by gas, water, and electric utilities, and a public utility rate commission may not prohibit an agency from participating in such a program to the same extent permitted other customers of the utility. Twothirds of the energy and water cost savings realized by an agency (other than the Department of Defense) shall remain available to the agency without additional authorization or appropriation, with...
Page 23 - These include: closing or consolidating field offices; reducing management layering; fuller use of new technology; reductions in regulation and red tape in such areas as personnel, procurement, budgeting, and internal management; and enhanced employee training and cross-training.
Page 19 - ... order was issued to clarify regulatory policy in the Clinton Administration. It provides for yearly meetings between the Vice-president, regulatory advisors and agency heads to coordinate regulatory efforts. The Vice-President will review and recommend resolution of conflicts between agencies and OTRA, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.