§ 685. — Transmission of messages; publication.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC685]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 17B--IMPOUNDMENT CONTROL AND LINE ITEM VETO
SUBCHAPTER II--CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED RESCISSIONS,
RESERVATIONS, AND DEFERRALS OF BUDGET AUTHORITY
Sec. 685. Transmission of messages; publication
(a) Delivery to House and Senate
Each special message transmitted under section 683 or 684 of this
title shall be transmitted to the House of Representatives and the
Senate on the same day, and shall be delivered to the Clerk of the House
of Representatives if the House is not in session, and to the Secretary
of the Senate if the Senate is not in session. Each special message so
transmitted shall be referred to the appropriate committee of the House
of Representatives and the Senate. Each such message shall be printed as
a document of each House.
(b) Delivery to Comptroller General
A copy of each special message transmitted under section 683 or 684
of this title, shall be transmitted to the Comptroller General on the
same day it is transmitted to the House of Representatives and the
Senate. In order to assist the Congress in the exercise of its functions
under section 683 or 684 of this title, the Comptroller General shall
review each such message and inform the House of Representatives and the
Senate as promptly as practicable with respect to--
(1) in the case of a special message transmitted under section
683 of this title, the facts surrounding the proposed rescission or
the reservation of budget authority (including the probable effects
thereof); and
(2) in the case of a special message transmitted under section
684 of this title, (A) the facts surrounding each proposed deferral
of budget authority (including the probable effects thereof) and (B)
whether or not (or to what extent), in his judgment, such proposed
deferral is in accordance with existing statutory authority.
(c) Transmission of supplementary messages
If any information contained in a special message transmitted under
section 683 or 684 of this title is subsequently revised, the President
shall transmit to both Houses of Congress and the Comptroller General a
supplementary message stating and explaining such revision. Any such
supplementary message shall be delivered, referred, and printed as
provided in subsection (a) of this section. The Comptroller General
shall promptly notify the House of Representatives and the Senate of any
changes in the information submitted by him under subsection (b) of this
section which may be necessitated by such revision.
(d) Printing in Federal Register
Any special message transmitted under section 683 or 684 of this
title, and any supplementary message transmitted under subsection (c) of
this section, shall be printed in the first issue of the Federal
Register published after such transmittal.
(e) Cumulative reports of proposed rescissions, reservations, and
deferrals of budget authority
(1) The President shall submit a report to the House of
Representatives and the Senate, not later than the 10th day of each
month during a fiscal year, listing all budget authority for that fiscal
year with respect to which, as of the first day of such month--
(A) he has transmitted a special message under section 683 of
this title with respect to a proposed rescission or a reservation;
and
(B) he has transmitted a special message under section 684 of
this title proposing a deferral.
Such report shall also contain, with respect to each such proposed
rescission or deferral, or each such reservation, the information
required to be submitted in the special message with respect thereto
under section 683 or 684 of this title.
(2) Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall be printed in
the first issue of the Federal Register published after its submission.
(Pub. L. 93-344, title X, Sec. 1014, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 335.)
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 1404 of Title 31 prior to
the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by
Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877.
Ex. Ord. No. 11845. Delegation of Certain Reporting Functions to
Director of Office of Management and Budget
Ex. Ord. No. 11845, Mar. 24, 1975, 40 F.R. 13299, as amended by Ex.
Ord. No. 12608, Sept. 9, 1987, 52 F.R. 34617, provided:
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Impoundment Control
Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344; 88 Stat. 332, (2 U.S.C. 681 et seq.),
hereinafter referred to as the Act) [subchapters I and II of this
chapter], and section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget is hereby designated and
empowered to exercise, as of October 1, 1974 without ratification or
other action of the President (1) the functions required by sections
1014(b) and 1014(d) of the Act [subsecs. (b) and (d) of this section] of
transmitting to the Comptroller General of the United States and to the
Office of the Federal Register copies of special messages transmitted
pursuant to section 1012 or 1013 (2 U.S.C. 683 and 684) of the Act; and
(2) the function conferred upon the President by section 1014(e) of the
Act (2 U.S.C. 685(e)) of submitting to the Congress cumulative reports
of proposed rescissions, reservations, and deferrals of budget
authority.
