Creating an Office of Management: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, May 12, 1998 |
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agement agency management appointees attention BOB/OMB budget and management budget process budgetary Bureau capacity Chairman Clinger-Cohen Act Committee CONG CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressional Research Service Deputy Director Dwight Ink effective efforts executive branch executive branch management Executive Office Federal Government Federal Management financial management focus Gilmour Government Management Government Performance governmentwide GPRA Harold Seidman HORN implementation institutional integrated KUCINICH legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Management and Budget management functions management improvement management initiatives management issues management laws management leadership management problems management reform management responsibilities management staff managerial McMurtry ment MIHM needs Office of Federal Office of Management organization organizational oversight Paul Light PETE SESSIONS Pew Charitable Trust planning political Posner President President's priorities Public Administration RARY regulatory RELYEA reorganization RESS Results Act STEPHEN HORN structure Thank things U.S. Congress Washington Wright
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Page 40 - Critics of these recommendations may say the effort to 'integrate' management and budget will end in merely bigger budget divisions, whose management responsibilities will be driven out by daily fire-fighting on budget issues.... We believe this criticism is based on a false premise that 'management
Page 47 - Under the President, the heads of departments must hold full responsibility for the conduct of their departments. There must be a clear line of authority reaching down through every step of the organization and no subordinate should have authority independent from that of his superior.
Page 42 - reinventing government' seeks the transfer of power from the legislative to the executive branch. In the Vice President's report, Congress is notable principally for its rare appearance. When it does appear, it is usually as an unindicted co-conspirator responsible for undermining effective management. The NPR criticizes Congress for micromanagement and for unpredictable budgetary decisions. Almost all of what the NPR recommends, in fact, requires that Congress give up...
Page 40 - National Academy of Public Administration, Revitalizing Federal Management: Managers and Their Overburdened Systems (Washington: National Academy of Public Administration, 1983).
Page 7 - ... the Library of Congress. I am also the head of the Executive and Judiciary Section of the CRS Government Division. Joining me is Virginia McMurtry, who is also a CRS Specialist in American National Government We thank you for your invitation to appear here today for this hearing. In October 1997, Dr. McMurtry and I began meeting with subcommittee staff concerning a requested review of internal reorganizations of the Bureau of the Budget (BOB) and its successor, the Office of Management and Budget...
Page 18 - Act of 1990, the Government Management Reform Act of 1994, and the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996...
Page 6 - They are building on previous initiatives that were already underway in various agencies, as well as on the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, and the Government Management Reform Act of 1994.
Page 40 - US Office of Management and Budget, "Making OMB More Effective in Serving the Presidency: Changes in OMB as a Result of the OMB 2000 Review,
Page 48 - President or by the departments heads, either collectively or separately. While comity and cooperation among Congress, the President, and the agencies are the bases for most relationships between the branches, the authoritative element in the relationship is clear. Management of the executive branch, both in terms of process and behavior, is ultimately dependent upon Congress and the law. Moreover, Congress (individual members, committees, institutional subordinates, and staff) is deeply involved...
Page 26 - These efforts were supplemented in late 1997 when the cio Council, under OMB'S leadership, designated information security as one of six priority areas and established a Security Committee. The Committee, in turn, has developed a preliminary plan and taken several actions primarily related to promoting awareness, planning for improving agency access to incident response services, and establishing links with other federal entities involved in security issues. However, neither OMB nor the Council has...